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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

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 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.

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

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta I...I really don't know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but got some 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:] lets see...uh...and the atom on the cover that's pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that great in and.
And wasn't 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 electrons moving 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 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 with 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 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 is that true?

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

swell.

[David:] it swell.

wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it does well?

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?

uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't think you should read too much into any of this you
It's...I mean the lark was written...
it was a piece written by Williams 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 the violin enters as the lark and it...
it starts with this of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these nimble then arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found in a work by the English poet 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 they died?

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

"He and begins to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing his heaven fills,

'Tis love of earth he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the wine which

To lift us him as he goes.

Till on his aerial rings

In light, and then the 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 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 there are other larks for me you know?

[Andy:] 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 art does this...

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it rises on wing 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 ground at my feet.

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

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

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

[David:] we're 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 some of us wing and when they do,
when their leave the ground, even for a second,
pull 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 and we rise
and we rise and we and we rise and we rise...