Slow dancing in a burning room!!!!

Any John Mayer fan must have heard this song. I always wondered how the phrase came to be used.
While it is supposed to mean that you are doing something that you enjoy even though you know it's going to kill you! Well at least those are the kind of situations I've seen people use them in.
But how did that saying really come around?

Was there this idiot who out of lack of ideas on how to commit suicide go dancing in a burning room. Maybe it was a famous village idiot. Or was it that during some school dance night, thanks to bad wiring the room caught fire and burnt down while the kids were too high on the alcohol they snuck in ,to really notice.
This is how i think it came about!

He had just got back home to London after spending many months at sea. She waited for many months admiring the ring around her finger which he put there when he got down on one knee just before he went away. She waited at the docks everyday hoping that he would come.
And then it happened, the moment the ship docked, he got off and looked around. There she was, looking as gorgeous as she did the last time they were together. They ran towards each other and she jumped in his arms. ( DDLJ ishtyle) and that was the longest kiss they ever had.
A week later, they got married and went away to sunny Hawaii on their honeymoon.
They had the most wonderful time, spending every many hours in each others arms not saying a single word. For they knew come Christmas day, he would be back on that ship and off to sea serving Queen and country.

That morning, he decided to take her shopping. He bought her that beautiful red dress she always wanted. They set a date for lunch. He went to the restaurant and booked a lovely table near the dance floor because he knew how much she really loved to dance. He remembered both of them dancing to no music on the beach long before he went away. He remembered how happy she was when she was dancing.

All of a sudden, she walked in, through the door. Everything seemed to stop. For that instant in time, like a photograph, everything stood still.Every head in the room turned to look at the angel that had walked in through that door. It was perfect, an angel in a red dress. Everything in place, her lipstick was perfect match with the dress which stopped just short of her heels which displayed a beautiful pair of red shoes.

She walked up to him and even before she could sit down, he held out his arm. she giggled and took it. And quite literally, he swept her of her feet onto the dance floor. And like they had done so many times before, they slow danced to no music. Every person in the room was still staring at the angel, every girl wondered why she didn't look so divine, every guy wondered why he never had anything so simple yet so divine.

But slowly, one by one ,every head in the room changed expression. From one of true amazement to one of panic. Over the low hum of airplanes, they heard loud explosions. To their left they saw ships docked slowly exploding in a brilliant display of fire works and slowly sinking to the bottom of the bay, to their right just over the horizon, like a murder of crows they saw more planes headed their way. They didn't know who it was who had decided to blow up this paradise, but it was happening. As they approached, small cylindrical objects were dropped, which started flying towards the restaurant.This was the scene everywhere. People were not prepared for it, fighter planes and bombers flew over the sky and gutted every thing in their path with bombs and bullets. More planes came out of no where. More explosions. They were under attack.Bombs fell over the major destroyer ships, sinking them. The smaller planes were taking out the population near the docks with their mounted guns.
Everyone ran for helter-skelter for shelter.

But no one noticed him and her, still dancing, but now to a different kind of music. They continued to dance as they both stared into each others eyes. The world around them was burning, but they didn't move but continued to dance. Not one word was said. For they both knew that even if they were to live through this, it would be a different world to which they would return. It would have changed. He would be back on that boat, and this time he may not return from sea. They both knew that these were their last few moments together. They decided to spend it in each others arms, so that this beautiful thing they had, would last forever and no force on heaven or earth could take it away.

The room was burning.Beams buckled under the heat. The alcohol in the the bar caught fire and exploded. The drum kits started burning on the stage near the dance floor. What remained of the people who were killed at the restaurant, slowly caught fire and they were slowly cremated. Yet, they still danced. None saw them in the midst of all the smoke and fire. Her hand around his neck and his hands around her waist.Her head rested on his chest. They both continued to slow dance unphased by the world around them
Until with one final creak, the last beam cracked and the restaurant came crashing down.

Till the last moment, they continued. Continued to 'slow dance in a burning room' !

And hence on December 7Th 1941, after pearl harbour, we all started to slow dance in a burning room!