Facing Dragons

I've been thinking a lot about dragons, and how they appear in so many separate cultures, like a common dream for early humanity. What is it about dragons, anyway?

My song "Facing Dragons" uses dragons as a metaphor for the difficulties and dangers of modern life. Are dragons just for slaying?

They represent fancy. Many ancient cultures fancied them, though no one would fancy meeting one. Just to imagine them is enough.

Perhaps they represent tests, like men are tested by war, to see if they measure up.

Maybe if I wasn't born in the year of the dragon, none of this would catch my fancy, fantasy, whatever.

Jim