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hello.

[David:] yeah, is there?

uh...this is he.

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

[Andy:] oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I expect you so soon.
Let me...give me a second to get set up here.

no problem.

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

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

[Andy:] well. Alright. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, get started.
Uh...sorry my are...you know a little 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 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..
that's interesting. You the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title thing.

yeah.

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

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was all that great in science and.
And math wasn't 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 mean is it metaphorical for 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 elliptical paths around a and all...we know...

mmhmm.

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

ok.

[David:] ...and so....and so that's why it was 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 we have you know?
It helps us the idea.

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

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you know I there's this 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 with this...this piece called "the lark ascending."
now what is...what is the lark?
Is that...is that a metaphor for something?

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

wait uh...

[David:] ...of the work

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the they died?

...well it went...and it went 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 till his heaven fills,

'Tis of earth that he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the which overflows

To lift us him as he goes.

Till lost on his rings

In light, and the fancy sings."

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

[David:] I know.

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

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

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

yeah.

[Andy:] ...in the I have 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. That as the lark so do we."

right. I'm unsure.

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

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

hold...hold on just a second. Uh but I mean what about the number 7?

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

wait. Hold 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 sometimes some of us wing and when they do,
when their feet the ground, even for a second,
they pull the rest of us them.
And when we rise, and we rise,
and we notice that the sky has been around us all along.
We have been walking it. It has been this constant collision.
and depravity.
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 and we rise
and we rise and we and we rise and we rise...