Ball of Wax 61 Songs: KPH & the Canary Collective – “Tell My Dreams”

I swear I didn’t intend to front-load this particular volume of Ball of Wax with songs about loss, it just kind of worked out that way. KPH’s lovely, languorous “Tell My Dreams” is clearly an ode to a lost love, but it’s so subtly written that it’s unclear just what type of loss has occurred. For me, that particular disconnect between dream-life and waking life is reminiscent of what can happen when a friend or loved one dies, but I’m sure it happens when relationships have ended as well. In your dream everything is just as it was: your person there, your love intact. But then, when the dream is over, as KPH sings: “waking up’s like the radio plug’s / Been ripped out suddenly / The music’s stopped, I’m here alone / You’ve dropped your dance with me.” It can be a good thing to see people in dreams you won’t ever see again in real life, but sometimes you just wish, as she also sings, that your soul would get the memo.