Massachussetts band Love Crumbs takes a sharp pivot away from folk with their hard-hitting new single “Ellipses,” which Adobe & Teardrops is proud to present! The song dives deep into an all-too-familiar experience in our modern age, and interrogates what it is to lose touch while staying forever connected.
What is your song about?
The track is about trying to connect with someone and not being able to despite the best of intentions. Or, about setting out with the best of intentions with a relationship and realizing that, for one reason or another, it wasn’t going to come to bear.
What is the story behind this song – how did it come about:
I had a relationship that ended kind of suddenly, and I kind of didn’t know why. The person was typing to me (I could see it on my screen as “…” (ellipses) but I never got to hear their response, or why they left.
I believe that closure isn’t something that someone gives us. It’s something that we have to come to on our own. So, this song is an attempt at doing that.
Specifically, this was a friend of mine that was a PhD student that I met at a conference about the use of applied behavior analysis in the field of addiction studies. I have a brother who is an addict and she was in a 12-step fellowship for family members and loved ones of addicts. So, it was tough to lose a lifeline there – as someone who could empathize with me in my struggle about that topic.
What is the message you want to relay to your fans with this song:
I think the song is meant to feel beautiful and dream-like melodically while tackling a bit more of a lugubrious vibe about loss lyrically. I think, “pain shared is pain lessened” and I’m hopeful that someone can hear the song and get something out of it – whether it’s identification, a feeling, or just enjoying the sound.
My favorite line in the song and is:
Fortune, foe or friend of mine?
You gave us love but it bleeds with time
And Why:
I think whether or not we are on the winning side of love or of fortune can really be a matter of time. When we’re newly in love, for example, we feel like the luckiest person in the world. We may feel less so when talking to the divorce attorney about the same relationship years later. And so, the impermanence of love (or the potential for it to be impermanent) is sometimes only a matter of time. It’s about the uncertainty of whether time or fortune is really on our side or not despite the apparent gift of love.
And I like alliteration, and it’s got some of that in there 😉