Quote:Ummm, that strikes me as ... improbable.
Journey to the past sends Doug into the past of the current world he is in.
The entire thrust of the song is about finding one's way to home and loved ones. If Doug's power interprets it as a time-travel song -- a local-universe-only time-travel song -- despite discovering it at a time in his life when he's desperate to return to home and loved ones, there must be something odder than we thought going on in his mind.
On further reflection, I decided that Doug doesn't need to find this song in any of the Steps that get written up. Instead, it could be the song that brings him into a Step, after he picked it up in a universe where nothing happened worthy of a story (maybe an anecdote or two, though: "And don't get me started about how I blew up when I saw what Kaoru's grandfather had done to his back.").
So he wakes up in whatever universe, starts to get his bearings, and thinks something like, "Well, damn. Still not there. I'd really had high hopes that 'Journey to the Past' would bring me home, especially with the lines
'Arms will open wide,
I'll be safe and wanted,
Finally home where I belong.'
It'd sounded so damned promising."-----
Those who believed the laws of physics made things "possible" or "impossible" were mistaken. Time travel violated one of those laws. Physics took its *revenge*.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.