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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. Made a few around here
and my typical is kinda, you know, technology's a killer right?

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

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

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta I...I really don't 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 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 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 a metaphor or...uh...I mean 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 in elliptical 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...

[Andy:] right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not really I see the connection. But...

...well...and what we mean 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 significant? Uhmm...is 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 really spectacular ending to...
to the record is true?

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

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it does

no. It swells.

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

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

[Andy:] uh...

[David:] ...of the published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the they died?

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

"He and begins to round,

He the silver chain of sound,

Of many without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing till his fills,

'Tis of earth that 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 rings

In light, and the fancy sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. 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 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

wait a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...

yeah.

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

right.

[Andy:] ...making a point that art 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. That as the rises so do we."

right. I'm unsure.

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

yeah. Uhmm. But the ground pulls at my feet.

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

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

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

we're walking around in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and there is and we're somewhere in between.
is where we live.
And sometimes of us take wing and when they do,
when their feet leave the ground, for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And when we rise, and we rise,
and we notice that 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 rise and we rise and we and we rise
and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise and we
and we rise and we rise and we and we rise...