So Young by the London Suede

Threading music and lyrics in dreams to connections and insights. Recently, I dreamt and recalled the lyrics of a song called “So Young” by an English band Suede (1993) “Lets chase the dragon home.” This band and song never had any significance to me personally but reminded me of an ex. I discussed the song with my husband and he had known that “chasing the dragon” was an English colloquialism for shooting up heroine– not something I am familiar with in any sense. However, chasing the dragon is mythic and connects us to medieval dragons and chinese dragons, linking us with the dark and light aspects of the magical creature. 

Something hints at what it means to chase the dragon. To chase after alter states of the same reality that is somehow known and unknown to us, perhaps we can say what the addict longs for to transcend the banal. Songs can have strong archetypal connections and speak to phenomenon on a collective level not just our personal associations. And yet recalling the song and this ex, I realized how much this was the beginning of me chasing my own path of individuation when I was so young. It allowed me to reinstate the importance of that relationship and time in my life that had a domino effect in reclaiming my power and transcend from other spells, patterns, that I was “addicted” to and it did take numinous experiences, connecting to the transcendent, for it to happen. Facing the dragon’s dark and light sides of myself, the collective and life, and bringing it home.

Micro to macro, macro to micro, an interconnected unfolding, thanks to a song.