Lyrics of ZWelZ – HIGHLIGHT REEL

Breaking news…
Someone just posted a salad.
With seventeen hashtags.
(we’re all gonna be okay)

Highlight reel, nothing is real (real)
Filtered the pain, now it looks like a deal
Posting the life that you wish you could feel
Highlight reel, nothing is real
(Absolutely nothing)

Woke up looking rough, took forty seven shots
(forty. seven.)
Posted the one where somehow I look hot
Valencia on the food before the food gets cold
(the food was cold)
Ate it sad and lonely, three days old

Checked in at a restaurant I could not afford
(smiled through it)
Told the waiter hold the food, the lighting’s off
He waited one whole hour while I fought the light
(he quit that day)
Left a one star review — the ambiance wasn’t right

Posted good vibes only, living my best life
(it was not my best life)
Sixty people commented goals on my situation
(goals.)
Little do they know my goal is just avoiding bill collection
(same goal every month)

Highlight reel, nothing is real (real)
Filtered the pain, now it looks like a deal
Posting the life that you wish you could feel
Highlight reel, nothing is real
(Absolutely nothing)

Saw a guy post his Lambo every single day
(same angle every time)
Plot twist — rental, costs him forty by the hour
His followers think he’s literally showering in the thing
(he is not showering in it)

Girl posts a beach body, nineteen apps attached
Smoothed the skin, tucked the chin, stretched the legs
(science)
Now she’s getting DMs asking for her fitness plan
(cardio and photoshop)

Bro posting sunsets from a city he’s never seen
Currently in Bali — currently in his kitchen
(nice kitchen though)
Bought a fake blue tick to look important
Got ratio’d by a bot
(and cried about it)

Influencer couple goals, matching fits, coordinated
Broke up three days after the collab dropped
(but kept the posts up)
Love is dead but the engagement’s still climbing
(rest in peace)

Highlight reel, nothing is real (real)
Filtered the pain, now it looks like a deal
Posting the life that you wish you could feel
Highlight reel, nothing is real
(Absolutely nothing)

Look I get it, I done did it too
(don’t look at my instagram from 2019)
Posted the vacation, never posted when I cried
Put the good days on the timeline
Locked the bad ones in a drawer
(password protected)

We’re all out here performing for strangers
Like somehow they’re keeping score
But your mama doesn’t care about your follower count
She just wants you at the table
(put the phone down)

Forty five years on this planet here’s what I finally see
The people chasing clout the hardest
Got the least amount of peace
(every single time)
Real life got no filter
But it hits different when it’s real
(trust me)

Nobody posts the 3am version
The ugly cry
The empty fridge
(yeah me neither)

…I’m posting this from my bathroom floor.
Filter: Valencia.
Caption: Blessed.
(seventeen hashtags)

Highlight reel, nothing is real (real)
Filtered the pain, now it looks like a deal
Posting the life that you wish you could feel
Highlight reel, nothing is real
(Absolutely nothing)

This has been a ZWelZ production.
Now if you’ll excuse me…
I need to photograph my dinner.
(it’s getting cold)
Follow for more life advice.
(I have none)