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hello.

[David:] yeah, is there?

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is David Crowder calling for the interview that was scheduled

[Andy:] oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I didn't you so soon.
Let me...give me a second to get set up here.

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. Made a few changes around
and my typical setup is kinda, you know, a killer right?

[David:] uh...well...we'll have to and see I guess.

well. Alright. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, let's get started.
Uh...sorry my notes are...you know a scattered here...
uh...you'll have to me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I really know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got friends that are big fans and um...

right.

[Andy:] but...uh...anyway...um...alright. Well. Ok. So we go.
Um...so your new CD is a collision, or...um...3 + 4 = 7 that's..
interesting. You know the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title thing.

yeah.

[Andy:] uhmm lets see...uh...and the atom on the cover pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was all that great in science and.
And math really my...my specialty...which is...which is I guess,
you know, why I'm a now. But uh...

mmhmm.

...anyway um...

ok.

[Andy:] ok. So uh...it...I know...is that...it's like with the cover...
is that a metaphor or...uh...I is it metaphorical for something or like, or is it...

well...

[Andy:] ...just or...

...nah. Well I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, not really...I mean it's a symbol.
You see that and you atom.
It shows electrons moving in paths around a nucleus and all...we know...

mmhmm.

[David:] ...that's...that's not how an atom works. Or...or even, for that matter...

ok.

[David:] ...and so....and so that's why it was for the cover, you know...

right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not really sure I see the connection. But...

[David:] ...well...and what we mean to say is that the of worship are inadequate,
much like the atom depiction. But is what we have you know?
It us carry the idea.

mmhmm. Mmhmm. Uhmm. Ok. Uh.
Tell...ok...what's the deal with these little songs the real...you know, the real songs?
Like are significant? Uhmm...is there like a theme of the album?
Or are they space? Like what's...going on there?

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you know I hear there's really spectacular ending to...
to the record is that

[David:] we'll to wait and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it well?

no. It swells.

oh. Right. It swells. Uhmm. Ok. Well.
And so the end starts this...this piece called "the lark ascending."
Uhmm now what is...what is the
Is that...is also a metaphor for something?

uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't think you should read too much any of this you know
It's...I mean the lark was written...
it was a piece written by Williams who died in 1958,
and uh, the opens with this calm set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so the violin enters as the lark and it...
it starts with series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the poet George Meredith
who died in 1909 and the composer included a portion of Meredith's on the flyleaf...

wait uh...

[David:] ...of the published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

[Andy:] ...why do you mentioning...

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year they

[David:] ...well it went...and it went like this it uh...

"He rises and to round,

He the silver chain of sound,

Of many without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing his heaven fills,

'Tis love of earth he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the wine overflows

To lift us him as he goes.

Till lost on his aerial

In light, and then the sings."

huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

[David:] I know.

[Andy:] sorry. I i've got the wrong page. Uhmm.
The script you gave me says different. It says, "you are."

yeah but I don't...
I feel like the lark much of the time and uhmm there are other larks for me you know?

[Andy:] a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...

yeah.

[Andy:] ...in the I have you're...

right.

[Andy:] ...making a that art does this...

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it rises on wing from earth to the heavens...

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the of us with it. That as the lark rises so do we."

right. I'm unsure.

[Andy:] but. Uh. on. I mean...it...it says so right here.

[David:] yeah. Uhmm. But the ground at my feet.

[Andy:] hold...hold on just a second. Uh but I mean about the number 7?

[David:] did you ever notice that the sky is all the way to the

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

[David:] we're walking around in it. in the sky.
There is sky and is ground and we're somewhere in between.
is where we live.
And sometimes of us take wing and when they do,
when their feet the ground, even for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And we rise, and when we rise,
and we notice that the sky has been around us all along.
We have been walking into it. It has been this collision.
and depravity.
And we rise and we and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we and we rise and we rise and we rise...