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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?

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

no problem.

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

[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 to forgive me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I admit I...I really don't know 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 double thing.

yeah.

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

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 mean is it metaphorical for 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 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 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 sure 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 with these little between the real...you know, the real songs?
Like are significant? Uhmm...is there like a theme of the album?
Or are they creating space? Like what's...going on

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you know I hear there's this really 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 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 also a 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 mean the 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 violin enters as the and it...
it with this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English George Meredith
who in 1909 and the composer 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 year died?

...well it went...and it went like this it says uh...

"He rises and to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

'Tis love of earth he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the wine which

To us with him as he goes.

lost on his aerial rings

In light, and the fancy sings."

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

I don't know.

[Andy:] sorry. I i've got the wrong page. Uhmm.
The you gave 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 uhmm there are larks for me you know?

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

yeah.

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

right.

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

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it 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 just a second. Uh but I mean what about the 7?

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

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

[David:] we're walking in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and there is ground and somewhere in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes some of us wing and when they do,
when feet leave the ground, even for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And when we rise, and we rise,
and when we 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 and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we rise and we and we rise...