Not Playing Along

Verse 1

Always perfect for the feed

Studio lights and a rented watch

Caption something else entirely

Nothing here for the plot

Big house from a credit line

Smiling hard with your teeth

I could laugh about it all

If it wasn't so bleak

Pre-Chorus

I ain't mad

I'm just finished taking turns

Posed up for the camera

That nobody returns

Chorus

I'm not playing along

Cool and unbothered

Bitter like a dark song

Funny and well-covered

Post the halo not the hands

Selling happy like a brand

I'm not playing along

I finally stopped being bland

Verse 2

Fake luxury on the couch-es

Fake confidence in the comments

Everybody's so successful

Everyone's a silent contest

You can brag about the booking

You can talk about the climb

I'm the one who stopped performing

And I'm fine

Pre-Chorus

I ain't mad

I'm just done with the show

Every perfect little smile

Is a mask I used to know

Chorus

I'm not playing along

Cool and unbothered

Bitter like a dark song

Funny and well-covered

Post the halo not the hands

Selling happy like a brand

I'm not playing along

I finally stopped being bland

Bridge

(Small laugh)

Yeah

Every filter on the timeline

Every commercial of a life

I watch it all go quiet

It's a joke and I'm the knife

Chorus

I'm not playing along

Cool and unbothered

Bitter like a dark song

Funny and well-covered

Post the halo not the hands

Selling happy like a brand

I'm not playing along

I finally stopped being bland