“It’s a song about guilt. You know, my dad wasn’t very good at talking to me on the phone. He sucked at it, he didn’t know what to say. But I kind of felt that he wanted to talk to me, but he didn’t know how to connect with me and how he would do it. But I always struggled to pick up the phone because we also didn’t have a very good relationship to begin with. And [during] one of my long stints of not picking up the phone, he passed away…and I was like I wonder if—what would he have said that time? That’s what the song is about. It’s about me dealing with the guilt and regret of not picking up the phone and having to live with it and accepting that that is what for the rest of my life will be something that I’ve done.”
- Elmiene on the meaning of his song, “Cry Against The Wind” [x]
