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You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire

Light My Fire, The Doors, from the 1967 album The Doors

Yes, of course I know what the song's really about. But read the lyrics literally, and you get an Empowerment song... Gives fire-based powers to a female Doug cares about ("Come on baby, light my fire"), gives her and Doug the ability to levitate ("You know that I would be a liar / If I was to say to you / Girl, we couldn't get much higher"), and makes both of them impulsive ("The time to hesitate is through").
This makes a good counterpart to (I'm So Hot For Her And) She's So Cold. It might also be of use in the Sailor Moon step, if Doug wanted to let Usagi experience some of Rei's abilities; he'd just have to keep an impulsive Sailor Moon from flying away, and how hard could that be?

-Rob Kelk
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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

Wasn't his the one Doug accidentally started a forest fire with when he'd just discovered his powers?
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
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(checks the FAQ)
Yes, it was. And it was such a nifty power idea, too... Ah, well - never mind.

-Rob Kelk
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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

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Yes, it was. And it was such a nifty power idea, too... Ah, well - never mind.

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It could still work the way you state it. You just have to remember; Trees are inherently female.
Of course LT May have a traumatic relapse if he plays it again...

It's one he's stayed away from, yes, though more from wanting to pound his forehead and mutter "stupid stupid stupid!" when he thinks of it rather than any real trauma.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

A thought: We've seen from "Hazy Shade of Winter" that different covers of the same song give different powers. I had forgotten at the time I made the original post that Jose Feliciano has also recorded this song, with a somewhat-different tempo than The Doors' version.
It would still be a song Doug would avoid out of embarassment, but it might have the alternate effect I proposed (if Bob is willing to allow it).

-Rob Kelk
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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

Is it something you need for BSBW, Rob?
Either way, yes, now that you mention it, the Jose Feliciano version would be just fine. It'd bring up memories that he'd like to forget, but not so strongly as the original.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

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Is it something you need for BSBW, Rob?

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Maybe.
There's a scene that refuses to go away no matter how many times I give it a good, hard shove, and it involves something "I'm So Hot For Her" doesn't seem to be able to handle... but I may end up re-writing the entire section around the scene (thus excising the scene in question).

-Rob Kelk
--
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

Fair enough.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

I think I suggested this before (but I can't seem to find the actual post at the moment) Would this work, Rob?
Song: She's So Hot
Artist: Eric Heatherly
Album: Swimming in Champagne
Proposed power: Give female of choice fire powers, possibly gives symptoms of dehydration to Doug
Well she doesn't warm up 'til the sun goes down
Struts her stuff out on the town
She's got legs for a country mile
And those pouty lips make a dead man smile
(Chorus
Yeah, She's so hot, Born on Sunday
Doctor said you can bet your money
This girl ain't gonna be no Goldilocks
Yeah well She's so Hot tell you what
A ball of fire that you can't stop
I need some H2O for the heat stroke that I got
She's so hot, She's so hot, She's so hot, She's so hot
She's like Catwoman, she likes to play rough
She'll melt you down, she'll burn you up
She got the mercury risin', must be 103
To survive this climate
Somebody get me some water please
(repeat Chorus Twice)
She's so Hot, She's so hot
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
--Dr. Seuss