This one might be too powerful...

[robkelk]

Ain't got no trouble in my life
No foolish dream to make me cry
I'm never frightened or worried
I know I'll always get by
I heat up I cool down
When something gets in my way I go round it
Don't let life get me down
Gonna take it the way that I found it

I got the music in me
I got the music in me
I got the music in me

They say that life is a circle
But that ain't the way that I found it
Gonna move in a straight line
Keepin' my feet firmly on the ground
I heat up I cool down
I got words in my head so I say them
Don't let life get me down
Catcha hold of my blues and just play them

I got the music in me
I got the music in me
I got the music in me

Feel funky feel good
Gonna tell you I'm in the neighbourhood
Gonna fly like a bird on the wing
Hold on to your hat honey sing sing sing sing
I heat up I cool down
I got words in my head so I sing them
Don't let life get me down
Catcha hold of my blues and just play them

I got the music in me
I got the music in me
I got the music in me ...

I've Got The Music in Me, by the Kiki Dee Band (covered by plenty of folks, including the Love Machine, Heart, and Céline Dion, although not all at once), written by Bias Boshell, © 1974 Rocket Music Limited / April Music Limited. Low-quality audio: http://www.kikidee.info/kdme/kdr_ive_got_the_music.mp3

This one's a metasong. Doug plays it through completely, then immediately plays another song. That second song doesn't take effect right away; instead, Doug's "got the music in him", and can release the effect without needing to hear the song. Once it's released, the stored effect lasts as long as the song normally would. For play-balance/plot-balance, I'd say he can only have one song effect on hold at a time, and it'll wear off in 24 hours if he doesn't use it.

Can Doug play another song while he has a song on hold? Yes, of course he can. Would that disrupt the song that's on hold? That's up to Bob...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Wiregeek]

that's some next-level stuff there, indeed.

My personal thought is to make that available, but make it a SERIOUS investment of power. As in, hit it, go to bed, and grab eight, 'cause you're wiped
out, son.

which leaves 16 hours to use the song that you now have On Tap...
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Bob Schroeck]

(Doing some more catching up while updating software on my mother-in-law's machine...)

I like this lots, Rob -- and WG, your suggestion makes good sense. The result feels a lot like "hanging a spell" from the Amber books.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.