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I heard this on the radio today and it just screamed two things out at me

1) This is a coooool song

2) OMFG POWA SONG

Royworld - 'Dust'

All that will remain of us,

Are a thousand voices floating in the atmosphere,

Shadows falling in the dust,

And I hear your voice singled out and I want to say,

You and I will never die,

So don't think about all the space in-between us,

Get that rubbish off your mind,

And how many times can I tell you I love you?

You never believed in yourself,

You're living life upon a shelf,

And now that the city's burning,

You're radioing in,

I'm radioing out,

Come-in anyone,

Is there anyone around?

All I want to say,

What's it all about?

Radioing in,

I'm radioing out...

Walking down a corridor,

And I hear the sound of conversations through these walls,

Feeling like a lonely soul,

As the ghosts in the shadows sing-along with the radio,

You and I will never die,

And as the sun's streaming in through the windows from the streets outside,

Come on baby it's alright,

And how many times can I tell you I love you?

You never believed in yourself,

You're living life upon a shelf,

And now that the city's burning,

You're radioing in,

I'm radioing out,

Come-in anyone,

Is there anyone around?

All I want to say,

What's it all about?

Radioing in,

I'm radioing out...

I'm radioing out...

I'm radioing out...

I'm radioing out...

I'm radioing out...

All that will remain of us,

Are a thousand voices floating in the atmosphere,

Shadows falling in the dust,

And how many times can I tell you I love you

I think the power for this is very obvious, if perhaps prohibited for story reasons, but this is definitely a 'Contact Loved One Over Any/All Time, Space
Or Distance' power. If Doug was ever able to find a way to contact Maggie during the Walk, I think this'd be it.

I'd highly recommend the song itself to people, as it's got a kind of 'laid-back intensity' to it, and I found
it very enjoyable.

- Link to the video

- Beautiful Orchestrally Backed Live Performance

I believe it has already been stated that the only songs that reach across dimensions are gate songs. I can see the song granting Doug and one other the
ability to communicate over radio frequencies, but since I believe that Warriors costumes come with integrated scrambled radio communications anyway, it is
usually a moot point.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV

The only known songs to reach across dimensions are Gate songs. And that's simply because Doug hasn't thought things trought completely. With A Little Help From My Friends was shown to reach across dimensions and grab a little bit of Hexe's persona in DW II, after all. Not directly - just as a second-order effect that involved Doug's belief in the song's primary effect - but it still happened.

As for Radioing Out, I get the distinct impression that it only works on dead people. Communicating with the dead by radio is a nifty ability (and may even be useful in the Harry Potter Step), but it won't help Doug get in touch with Maggie...
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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

Dead? Really? Hmm. The phrase 'You and I will never die' and 'How many times can I tell you I love you' and
'Don't think about all the space in-between us' Imply life and love and contacting people to me... although thinking about it it could just as
easily be 'never die' as in the memories of a person never dying as well, which would imply the dead part. Hmm. So, so far we have,

1) A time/dimension spanning power to briefly contact those you love

2) A simple way to broadcast and access radio transmissions

3) Granting the ability to contact the dead.

I wonder what others could be coaxed from this one?

Wow, nice song... definitely a keeper. Definitely a communication power of some sort, though radio comms would be redundant if he has his helmet with him...
Talking to the dead? Um, I don't know about that.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.