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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

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

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

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. a few changes around here
and my setup 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 don't much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got some friends 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 lets see...uh...and the atom on the cover that's

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that 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 is it metaphorical for something or like, or is it...

well...

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

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

mmhmm.

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

[David:] ...well...and what we mean to say is the elements of worship are inadequate,
much the atom depiction. But this is what we have you know?
It us carry 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 I hear there's this really spectacular ending to...
to the record is 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 is...what is the lark?
Is that...is that also a 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 written 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 then the enters as the lark and it...
it with this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he found inspiration in a work by the English poet George Meredith
who died in 1909 and the included 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 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 links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing till his fills,

'Tis love of that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the wine which

To us with him as he goes.

lost on his aerial rings

In light, and then the sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

[David:] I know.

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

[David:] but I don't...
I don't feel like the lark much of the time and 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 know the whole, it rises on wing earth to fill 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. Hold on. I mean...it...it so right here.

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

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

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

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

[David:] we're around in it. We're in the sky.
is sky and there is ground and we're somewhere in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes some of us take 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 when we that the sky has been around us all along.
We have been into it. It has been this constant collision.
and depravity.
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 rise and we and we rise...