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hello.

[David:] yeah, is there?

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is David 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. Made a few changes here
and my typical setup is kinda, you know, technology's a 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 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 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..
that's interesting. You the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title 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 great in science 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 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, 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 works. Or...or looks even, for that matter...

ok.

[David:] ...and so....and so why it was appropriate for the cover, you know...

right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not really sure I see the connection. But...

[David:] ...well...and what we mean to say is the elements of worship are inadequate,
much like the atom depiction. But this is what we you know?
It helps us the idea.

mmhmm. Mmhmm. Uhmm. Ok. Uh.
Tell...ok...what's the deal with these little songs 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 I hear there's this really spectacular ending to...
to the is that 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 with this...this piece called "the ascending."
Uhmm now what is...what is the
Is that...is that also a metaphor for

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 the lark ascending was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn Williams who in 1958,
and uh, the work opens with this calm set of chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so then the enters as the lark and it...
it starts this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
nimble then 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 published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year died?

[David:] ...well it went...and it went 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 earth he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the wine overflows

To lift us him as he goes.

Till lost on his rings

In light, and then the sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean...but who is the

[David:] I know.

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

[David:] but I don't...
I feel like the lark much of the time and uhmm 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 that art this...

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it rises on wing from earth to the heavens...

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the rest of us it. That as the lark rises so do we."

right. I'm unsure.

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

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

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

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

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

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