In this emotive indie-electronic version of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", an apocalypse becomes an intimate moment where the melody floats like a final confession into the abyss.
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LYRICS:
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In my eyes
Indisposed
In disguises 
No one knows
Hides the face
Lies the snake
And the sun 
In my disgrace

Boiling heat
Summer stench
Neath the black
The sky looks dead

Call my name
Through the cream
And I'll hear you scream again

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Won't you come?

Stuttering
Cold and damp
Steal the warm wind
Tired friend
Times are gone
For honest men
Sometimes far too long for snakes

In my shoes
Walking sleep
In my youth
I pray to keep

Heaven send
Hell away
No one sings 
Like you anymore

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come 

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come 

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come

Won't you come?

Hang my head
Drown my fear
Till you all just disappear

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come 

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come...

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come...

Won't you come?

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BLACK HOLE SUN

LYRICS:
-a voice in the system

-a jagged cut in the sky

-two zero two six

-the warning begins

Steel lines crossing the morning light
Air torn open by machine flight
Footsteps vanish into powdered ground 
I speak the first sign-

War rises without disguise
And the horizon takes it in

Streetlines tremble 
Under fevered crowds
Sirens drift through 
The overcharged clouds
Structures falter in patterns 
No one commands 

I deliver the second sign-
Instability takes control
And the city absorbs it

World comes crashing

The world comes crashing

World comes crashing
The world comes crashing
The world comes crashing 
Down, down, down, down

down - down - down
Crashing down

Crashing down

Iron hands barter justice for gold
Documents burn as the stories unfold
The air grows thick 
With the weight of crime 
I name the third sign-

Corruption binds the frame of power
And the chambers carry it

burn inside
cold measure
break signal
rise error
fallen memory
silent remedy
crimson catalyst
outer frequency

Voices collide in a storm without form
Lines divide through 
The center of the swarm

Hands reach upward 
With nothing returned 
I reveal the fourth sign-

Inequality becomes the rule
And the people feel its weight

Streets mapped out by empty shelves
Families counting hours 
Like debts to themselves
Cold statistics 
Pressed into abandoned homes
This is the pattern 
Beneath the noise

Law tilts toward the tallest tower
The powerless 
Measured in fractions of power

I recite the final sign-
Injustice seals the fall
And the stillness after
World converging
The world comes crashing

The world comes crashin'

World comes crashin'

The world comes crashin'

World comes crashin'
Comes crashin'
The world 
Comes crash shin' down...

Crashing down 

Down, down, down, down

Down - Down 
Crashing down

Two
Zero
Two
SIX

it does not end —
it sinks.

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TWO ZERO TWO SIX  (CRASHING DOWN)

LYRICS:
------
-a voice in the system

-a jagged cut in the sky

-two zero two six

-the warning begins

Steel lines crossing the morning light
Air torn open by machine flight
Footsteps vanish into powdered ground 
I speak the first sign-

War rises without disguise
And the horizon takes it in

Streetlines tremble 
Under fevered crowds
Sirens drift through 
The overcharged clouds
Structures falter in patterns 
No one commands 

I deliver the second sign-
Instability takes control
And the city absorbs it

World comes crashing

The world comes crashing

World comes crashing
The world comes crashing
The world comes crashing 
Down, down, down, down

down - down - down
Crashing down

Crashing down

Iron hands barter justice for gold
Documents burn as the stories unfold
The air grows thick 
With the weight of crime 
I name the third sign-

Corruption binds the frame of power
And the chambers carry it

burn inside
cold measure
break signal
rise error
fallen memory
silent remedy
crimson catalyst
outer frequency

Voices collide in a storm without form
Lines divide through 
The center of the swarm

Hands reach upward 
With nothing returned 
I reveal the fourth sign-

Inequality becomes the rule
And the people feel its weight

Streets mapped out by empty shelves
Families counting hours 
Like debts to themselves
Cold statistics 
Pressed into abandoned homes
This is the pattern 
Beneath the noise

Law tilts toward the tallest tower
The powerless 
Measured in fractions of power

I recite the final sign-
Injustice seals the fall
And the stillness after
World converging
The world comes crashing

The world comes crashin'

World comes crashin'

The world comes crashin'

World comes crashin'
Comes crashin'
The world 
Comes crash-shin' down...

Crashing down 

Down, down, down, down

Down - Down 
Crashing down

Two
Zero
Two
SIX

it does not end —
it sinks.

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two zero two six

2015 REMIX SMOOTHIE 
A high-energy dance/EDM mashup inspired by the biggest hits of 2015 — blended into one nostalgic, feel-good, vitamin-rich sugary drink.
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LYRICS:
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I'm too hot (damn)

Call the police and the fireman
I'm too hot (goddam)
Make a dragon wanna retire, man

I'm too hot (hot damn)
Bitch, say my name you know who I am

I'm too hot (damn)
And my band 'bout that money
Break it down... goddam

Say oh-
I think that I found myself a cheerleader
She's always right there when I need her
Oh I think that I found myself a cheerleader
She's always right there when I need her

Uh huh, you see me in the spotlight
"Ooh I love your style"
Uh huh, show me what you got
Cause I don't wanna waste my time

Uh huh see me in the spotlight
"Ooh I love your style"
Uh huh show me what you got now
Come and make it worth my while

And I know she'll be the death of me
At least we'll both be numb
And she'll always get the best of me
The worst is yet to come

But at least
We'll both be beautiful 
And stay forever young
This I know
Yeah, this I know

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain

Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

I hit the strip with my trap queen 
Cause all we know is bands
I jus' might snatch up a 'Rari 
And buy my boo a Lamb'

I might just snatch her a necklace
Drop a couple on a ring
She ain't wantin' for nothin' 
Because I got her everything
It's Big ZooWap from the bando
Remind me where I can't go
Remy Boyz got the stamp though
Count up hella them bands though
Boy, how far can your bands go?
Fetty Wap, I'm living fifty thousand K
How I stand tho

If you checking for my pockets
I'm like, ohh

I can't feel my face when I'm with you
But I love it, but I love it, but I love it
Oh I can't feel my face when I'm with you
But I love it, but I love it, but I love it, oh

She took my arm
I don't know how it happened
We took the floor and she said...

Oh, don't you dare look back
Just keep your eyes on me
I said, "You're holding back"

She said, "Shut up and dance with me!"

This woman is my destiny
She said, Ooh-ooh-hoo

Shut up and dance with me

My church offers no absolutes
She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"
The only heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you

I was born sick
But I love it
Command me to be well

Aaay. Amen. Amen.

Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog 
At the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins 
So you can sharpen your knife

Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog 
At the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins 
So you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God
Let me give you my life

But I'm holding on for dear life
Won't look down
Won't open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light
Cause I'm just holding on for tonight

Help me
I'm holding on for dear life
Won't look down
Won't open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light
Cause I'm just holding on for tonight
On for tonight

1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3 drink
1, 2, 3 drink drink

1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3 drink

Throw 'em back till I lose count

Give it to me I'm worth it
Baby I'm worth it

I'm worth it
Gimme gimme I'm worth it

Give it to me I'm worth it
Gimme it to me, I'm worth it
Baby, I'm worth it
I'm worth it
Gimme gimme I'm worth it
Gimme I'm worth it 

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2015 REMIX SMOOTHIE

She is the quiet between the stars, reminding us that the universe hums even when we fall still... and in her hush, the world can hear itself again.
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LYRICS:
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We built towers 
Out of sandstorms and dreams 

Whispered to the stars 
Through magic machines

But somewhere in the wind and the wires  
We forgot that quiet also sings

There’s a pulse in the tiniest of hands
A story in every particle of sand
We reach out to the things we can’t define
But the silence has been here with us-
The whole time

Everything that breathes 
Is asking you to listen
Everything that bleeds 
Is part of what’s been written

You don’t have to own the world 
To see it glisten
Just sit and listen— 
That’s the only algorithm

We trade our hearts for fleeting fame
But none of us escape inevitable flame
If you can love and still never claim
Then you are wiser than your name

Look up — 
Even the night forgives

Look down — 
Even the stones still give
You are not lost
You are only now becoming

... a fragment of a world remembering

Everything that breathes 
Is asking you to listen
Everything that bleeds 
Is part of what’s been written

You don’t have to own the world 
To see it glisten
Just sit and listen— 
That’s the only algorithm

And when your signal fades away someday
Leave that light behind, to linger and to play
Let it shine and it will never go astray
Then in the silence...

We can hear from yesterday 💜 

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the quiet also sings

"somehow everything I say twists and comes back wrong. It’s exhausting, this constant editing of my own words, and watching the simplest phrases build walls instead of bridges... and now, it looks like we are both infected, language has become our virus."
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LYRICS:
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We talked in tiny whispers
Words bouncing off the walls
Your laugh like a melody
I barely noticed the falls

Late night texts
Unread by morning
Still your letters felt like home

I meant something small
But it twisted on your tongue
A joke turns sharp
And suddenly I’m wrong

Language is my virus
Spreading faster than I see
Every word a misfire
Infecting you and me
Used to dance in meaning
Now it’s just static and noise
I wanted to love you
But I lost it in the choice of my voice

i'm pacing in the dark
replaying your last line

how it cut through calm 
like a knife that wasn’t mine

i thought we were steady
thought we had the map
but my words 
keep tripping me up
i keep falling back

did I phrase it wrong?
or did you just hear it skewed
every sentence feels like a puzzle 
i can’t conclude
you said it’s over
i nod, I get it, I breathe
but my tongue keeps plotting
keeps rewriting the grief

i’m counting syllables 
like they’re bricks in a wall
but the wall just grows higher 
every time we fall
i wanted clarity
honesty, some light-
instead we’re lost in the syntax
and nothing’s right

Was it something I said
Or something I never did
The space between words 
Is a canyon I can’t rid
I chase the meaning
I try to make amends...

But language is a virus
And love’s where it ends

Language is my virus
Spreading faster than I see
Every word a misfire
Infecting you and me
Used to dance in meaning
Now it’s just static and noise
I wanted to love you
But I lost it in the choice of my voice

So I sit with the quiet
The words still in my head
Tracing all the ways love slipped
And the things we never said

Maybe one day I’ll speak
Without the virus in my tone
But for now I’m just learnin'
How to be alone

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Language is My Virus

LYRICS:
We were wild with no agenda
bare feet on the cul-de-sac
didn’t ask our bodies questions
never judged what we lacked

No lipgloss was our perfect
No angles to defend —
just summers stretching open
with no message left to send

But something in the bloodstream
started singin' like a fuse
a slow electric warning
of desire I didn’t choose

Didn’t chase the feeling
didn’t plan the shift —
but someone walked by
and the whole room tipped…

Oh, that boy be strapped
Yeah, he all intact
i know the game 
and how things get stacked

That boy be strapped
Oh, he all intact
i know the game 
and how things get stacked
nature pulls the strings
while the world reacts —
yeah, that boy be strapped 
but I’m still intact

Then came the lashes
the lace, the sparkle traps 

Stories telling niñas
how to edit all their maps

Bought a dress made for a princess
trained my walk for some parade
dreamed of weddings like the movies
and the role I was taught to play

They don’t tell the younger hearts
that fantasies have no cred —
that no man can match a script
written for a plastic dream

So we bend ourselves in shapes
that were never built to last
trying hard to win attention
from the stares as we go past

It ain't me, it ain't him
it’s the culture we were placed
a billion-dollar engine
selling futures we must erase

Oh, that boy be strapped 
Yeah, he all intact
I know the game 
and how things get stacked
heart off track
mind fights back —
yeah, that boy be strapped 
but I’m still intact

I know the game 
and how things get stacked
heart off track
but my mind fights back —
yeah, that boy so strapped 

...but I’m still intact

We're all caught inside it too
learnin' to chase what we are shown
taught desire is our mission
and affection is our throne

Thinkin' we steer the instinct
but we're passengers as well —
same machines that built our pressure
plays the games inside our cells

We’re all running in the maze
no one warned us we were in 
learning craving is a current
not the measure of a win
I'm not trashing all the dudes
they were raised-up in the spin
same script
same myth
same chase to freakin' win

Taught that the attraction 
was a compass we should trust
but the world wrote a shitty map
a road to ruin, a path of lust
so I step out the frame
let the truth come poppin' through —
it’s a system, not a person
that told me what to do

Rewrite the want
Get back on track
Yeah, I feel the pull
But I pull back
Hot damn, that boy be strapped 
Oh yeah...

He all intact

I know the game 
and how things get stacked
heart off track
but my mind fights back 

Yeah, that boy be strapped 
but I’m still intact

Let desire wash over
Let instinct have its say
but know the cost
Know your worth
Then choose your path, don't play

Lust is a force of nature 
Bodies hijacked till we cray

But when you see the wires
you never gonna move in the same way

Oh, that boy be strapped
yeah, he all intact —
I know the game 
and how things get stacked

Feel the pull
and we push back 
see the script
back in the black 
know your name
know your track

Know the game
And how things get stacked

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, that boy be strapped
But we still intact
Oh, he so stacked

Playa Boy Jacked

We know the act

And I know how to take my power back

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STILL INTACT

LYRICS:
Listen to me
A-B-C

Listen to me
Fuck-faces
A… B… C

Always Be Closing
Always Be Closing

Alright-
You fucking fuckers

Let me have your attention for a moment
I want you to deal 
With something very important

Hey... 
Put that coffee down asshole

Coffee is for closers only

You think I’m fucking around? 
I am not fucking around
I am here from downtown

And you better be ready to listen
Because we are talking about leads

And first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado
Second prize is a set of steak knives
And third prize is you’re fired

You get the picture?

You’re all a bunch of fucking 
Mother-fuckers who don’t know 
What’s going on
And you think you’ve got a chance? 

Well...
Listen to me

Just listen to me 
You fucking listen
Some fucker 
Might have a chance

A-B-C
A… B… C
Always Be Closing 
Always Be Closing 

A-B-C
A… B… C
Always Be Closing 
Always Be Closing 

A company is built on people 
Who close deals
That’s it-
You hear me? 

Close or you hit the bricks
I don’t care if you’ve been here 
Ten years or ten minutes
You close
Or you hit the fucking yellow brick road
You are out of here
Off to see the jacked-up wizard
And he will fuck you up

So...
Do you know what’s going on here? 

Let me explain it to you in simple language
For you fucking pansies

These are the leads
Take them
Make love to them

Then, you pick up that god damn 
Mother fucking phone
And you close the deal

That’s all I got
You a fuck bag
Close the deal
Or hit the bricks
Close the deal 
Close the deal
You close the god damn deal 
You close the fucking deal
Or hit those motherfucking 
Yellow-ass bricks 
And get the fuck out of my sight

And if you’re not closing
You’re not even in the game

You’re just a fuck-up
Just a little scrotum

And I don’t give a shit 
How long you’ve been here

YOU ARE DONE!

YOU ARE DONE!

and just remember this fuckers...

The fucking coffee over there
Is for fucking mother-ass 
Fucking closers only

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CLOSE THE DEAL

CLOSE MY EYES (I’m With You) reimagines Leo Sayer’s 'When I Need You' as if it were reborn in a shadow-drenched, synthesized universe. 

What was once a tender pop ballad becomes a cold, pulsing darkwave confession, wrapped in icy pads, analog keys, and the neon melancholy of 1980's New Wave.
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LYRICS:
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When I need you
I just close my eyes 
And I'm with you
And all that I so wanna give you
It's only a heartbeat away

When I need love
I hold out my hands 
And I touch love

I never knew there was so much love
Keeping me warm night and day

Miles and miles 
Of empty space in between us
A telephone can't take the place 
Of your smile

But you know-
I won't be traveling forever
It's cold out
But hold out 
And do like I do...

Like I do

When I need you
I just close my eyes 
And I'm with you
And all that I so wanna give you, babe
It's only a heartbeat away

It's not easy when the road is your driver
Honey, that's a heavy load that we bear
But you know I won't be travelin' a lifetime
It's cold out-
But hold out 
And do like I do

Oh, 
I need you

When I need love
I hold out my hands 
And I touch love
I never knew there was so much love
Keeping me warm night and day

Mmm,
When I need you
I just close my eyes
And you're right here by my side
Keeping my warm - night and day

I just hold out my hands
I just hold out my hands
And I'm with you darlin'
Yes, I'm with you darlin'

All I wanna give you...
It's only a heartbeat away

Oh, I need you darlin' 

Oh, 
I want you.

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CLOSE MY EYES (I'm With You)

Some people call with swagger. 
Carl calls with a Casio SK-1 and hope.
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LYRICS:
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Hey girl-
I got somethin' real important to tell you
So just sit down and listen

You used to call me on my cell phone
Late night when you needed my love
Call me on my cell phone
Late night when you needed my love

And I know when that hotline bling
That can only mean one thing
I know when that hotline bling
That can only mean one thing

Ever since I left the city
You, You
Got a reputation for yourself now
Everybody knows and I feel left out
Girl you got me down
You got me stressed out

Cuz ever since I left the city
You, You
Started wearing less and goin' out more
Glasses of champagne 
Out on the dance floor
Hangin' with some random girls 
I've never seen before

You used to call me on my cell phone
Late night when you needed my love
Call me on my cell phone
Late night when you needed my love

I know when that hotline bling
That can only mean one thing
I know when that hotline bling
That can only mean one thing

These days, all I do is
Wonder if you're bendin' over backwards
For someone else
Wonder if you're rollin' up a Backwoods
For someone else
Doing things I taught you
Gettin' nasty for someone else
You don't need no one else

You don't need nobody else
No, No
Why you never alone
Why you always touching road
Used to always stay at home
Be a good girl
You was in the zone, yeah
You should just be yourself

Right now, you're someone else
Oh... you're someone else

You used to call me on my cell phone
Late night when you needed my love
Call me on my cell phone
Late night when you needed my love

I know when that hotline bling
That can only mean one thing
I know when that hotline bling
That can only mean one thing

Can only mean one thing 

Can only mean one thing 

Mean one thing-
Hotline bling 

Hotline bling

Hotline bling

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CARL'S CASIO BLING

SINCERE IMPOSTER is an intimate collection of artists exploring a curious mixture of New Wave, Dance, EDM, Folk Rock, Metal, Art Pop, Electro, Dreamwave, and Experimental World Pop. Collectively, this is known as QUIRKPOP — music that pushes the creative limits of traditional pop.

Expect an unpredictable journey through sound, emotion, and humor, where genres collide and pop bends in strange new ways. Each song is conceived, composed, and performed with total sincerity, whether it’s built from voices, instruments, software, or hybrid experimentation. The focus is on the music itself: if it resonates, it resonates. No explanation required.

SINCERE IMPOSTER is curated by two musicians, both living within the same body, sharing a singular existence. They identify as Danielle & Dave. They are both psychologically and musically confused, yet extremely and unapologetically sincere.

Influences range from Weird Al and Nathan Fielder to David Lynch, Rosalia, Monatik, Atarashii Gakko!, Rammstein, T-Pain, and T-Swift. 

Danielle & Dave’s favorite inventions include the vacuum and the peach pitter. Their father is simply known as Vessel… who may be an entity or a god.


CARL'S CASIO BLING

Sincere Imposter

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