I love this song, even if I can't understand what's being said half of the time. Stream of consciousness, so Doug could possibly do anything with it when he heard it. But...there's a repeated line in the song that kept hitting me when I listened to it, and combined with the chorus, I thought it might give Doug a potentially very-useful power song.
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
R.E.M.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
The last line in the parentheses is the part that's repeated over and over in the song. So....
Effect: Doug is shifted partly out-of-phase with regards to the normal world, going invisible in the real world. He cannot move outside the area defined by his power's area of effect at the moment the power kicked in; it's as though there was a forcefield that he can't move past. Even as he's invisible to others in the normal world and can't interact with them, other creatures are invisible/intangible to him fo r the duration.
However, he CAN move around within the area of effect, which would let him escape immediate problems/set up ambushes, and so on. The song also exerts a healing power on Doug while he's under its effect. When the song ends, Doug is returned to the normal world, fully healed. If there is someone in the position he'd be returning to, he's shunted far enough to one side in a random direction to an open space.
Thoughts?
--Feinan
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
R.E.M.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
The last line in the parentheses is the part that's repeated over and over in the song. So....
Effect: Doug is shifted partly out-of-phase with regards to the normal world, going invisible in the real world. He cannot move outside the area defined by his power's area of effect at the moment the power kicked in; it's as though there was a forcefield that he can't move past. Even as he's invisible to others in the normal world and can't interact with them, other creatures are invisible/intangible to him fo r the duration.
However, he CAN move around within the area of effect, which would let him escape immediate problems/set up ambushes, and so on. The song also exerts a healing power on Doug while he's under its effect. When the song ends, Doug is returned to the normal world, fully healed. If there is someone in the position he'd be returning to, he's shunted far enough to one side in a random direction to an open space.
Thoughts?
--Feinan
