I'd kill a dragon for you

I don't know about you, but I tend to think of the things I emotionally dramatized in my youth as pretty cheesy from my current perspective. I mean, I love that I was so innocent and naive and was fortunate enough to have all the emotional support and love I needed to be self-absorbed, melodramatic and extremely clueless. Such is what the teenager years are for right? I was typical in that sense, very much in love with love and constantly embroiled in some conflagration of the heart. Not everything from that time swims in cheese though. I think we were seniors the year Sinead O' Connor released "The Lion and the Cobra" and we (my group of friends) were in love with it. I had never heard anything like her voice and I would sit in awe at its cut-glass rawness. I remember one night driving out into the middle of nowhere with my friend Rick, finding a place to park where it was pitch black and listening to "Troy" as loud as we could. I thought finally, for a few moments, all the blistering emotion of my heart had found expression and that song pretty much engraved itself on a place that hasn't changed. I know that it hasn't, because to this day I find that I want to say "I'd kill a dragon for you......." in those moments of extreme emotion towards those I love. Of course, actually SAYING that out loud without this whole story of context would just make me look like some kind of D&D freak, so I keep it to myself and know it means "I love you with all the emotion my heart can muster". My heart has only gotten stronger after all these years, so believe me mister, thassa lotta love. ;)