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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

oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I didn't expect you so soon.
Let me...give me a to get things set up here.

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. a few changes around here
and my typical setup is kinda, you know, technology's a right?

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

[Andy:] well. Alright. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, get started.
Uh...sorry my notes are...you a little scattered here...
uh...you'll to forgive me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I don't know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got some 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 double thing.

yeah.

[Andy:] uhmm lets see...uh...and the atom on the that's pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that 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 don't know...is that...it's like the cover...
is that a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it for something or like, or is it...

well...

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

...nah. Well I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, it's not really...I it's a symbol.
You see and you think 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 why it was appropriate for the cover, you know...

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

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

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

uhmm. I don't...

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

we'll have 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 with this...this called "the lark ascending."
Uhmm now what is...what is the
Is that...is that a metaphor for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't you should read too much into any of this you know
It's...I the lark ascending 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 then the enters as the lark and it...
it with this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these nimble then arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English poet George
who died in 1909 and the composer a portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...

[Andy:] uh...

[David:] ...of the published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year died?

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

"He rises and to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of many links a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

'Tis of earth that he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the which overflows

To lift us him as he goes.

Till lost on his rings

In light, and the fancy sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean...but who is the

[David:] I know.

sorry. I think i've got the wrong page. Uhmm.
The you gave me says something different. It says, "you are."

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

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

yeah.

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

right.

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

right.

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

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the rest of us with it. 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 what about the number 7?

did you ever notice that the sky is all the way to the ground?

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

[David:] we're around in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and is ground and we're somewhere in between.
is where we live.
And some 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 when we rise, and we rise,
and when we notice the sky has been around us all along.
We have been walking into it. It has been constant collision.
and depravity.
And we rise and we and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise and we
and we rise and we and we rise and we rise...