Luyện nghe bài hát A Conversation

hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

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

[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.

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 admit I...I really don't know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got some friends that are big and um...

right.

[Andy:] but...uh...anyway...um...alright. Well. Ok. So we go.
Um...so new CD is titled 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 great in and.
And math 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 know...is that...it's like with 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 atom works. Or...or looks even, for matter...

ok.

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

[Andy:] right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not sure I see the connection. But...

[David:] ...well...and what we to say is that the elements of worship are inadequate,
much the atom depiction. But this is what 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 they significant? Uhmm...is there like a 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 really spectacular ending to...
to the is that 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 with this...this piece "the lark ascending."
now what is...what is the lark?
Is that...is also a metaphor for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I think...
I don't think you should read too much 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 set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so then the violin enters as the and it...
it starts 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 work

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year they

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

"He rises and to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of many without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing till his fills,

'Tis love of earth 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."

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

I don't know.

[Andy:] sorry. I i've got the wrong page. Uhmm.
The script you gave me 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 script I you're...

right.

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

right.

[Andy:] ...you the whole, it rises on wing from 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. on. I mean...it...it says so right here.

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

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

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

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

[David:] we're walking around in it. in the sky.
There is sky and there is and we're somewhere in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes some of us take wing and when do,
when their feet leave the ground, for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And we rise, and when we rise,
and when we notice the sky has been around us all along.
We have been walking into it. It has this constant collision.
and depravity.
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 rise and we and we rise...