Can we pretend
that airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now
Can we pretend
that airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now
Let's pretend like its '98
Like I'm eating lunch off
of styrofoam trays
Trying to be the next rapper
coming out the A
Hoping for a record deal
To renew my fame
Now let's pretend like
I'm on the stage
And when my beat drops
everybody goes insane
And everybody know my name
And everywhere I go
people want to hear me sing
Oh yeah and I just dropped
my new album
On the first week
I did five hundred thousand
Gold in the spring
And diamond in the fall
And then a world tour
Just to top it all off
And let's pretend like
they call me the greatest
Selling out arenas
with big *** stages
And everybody loved me
and no one ever hated
Let's try to use imagination
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now
Can we pretend
that airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now
Okay let's pretend like
this never happened
Like I never had dreams
of being a rapper
Like I didn't write raps
up in all of my classes
Like I never used to runaway
into the blackness
Now let's pretend like
it was all good
Like I didn't live staring
in a notebook
Like I did the things
that I probably knew I should
But I ain't have neighbors
that's why they call it hood
Now let's pretend like
I ain't got a name
Before they ever called me
B.o.B or A.K.A Bobby Ray
I'm talking back
before the mix tapes
Before the videos
And the deals and the fame
Before they ever once
compared me to Andre
Before I ever got
on MySpace
Before they ever
noticed my face
So let's just pretend and
make wishes out of airplanes
Can we pretend
that airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now
Can we pretend
that airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now
And it seems like yesterday
It was just a dream
But those days are gone
They're just memories
And it seems like yesterday
It was just a dream
But those days are gone
Let's pretend
Marshall Mathers never
picked up a pen
Let's pretend things
would've been no different
Pretend he procrastinated
had no motivation
Pretend he just made excuses
that was so paper thin
They could blow away
with the wind
Marshall you never
going to make it
Makes no sense
to play the game
There ain't no way
that'll you win
Pretend he just
stayed outside all day
and played with his friends
Pretend he even had a friend
to say was his friend
And it wasn't time to move
and schools weren't
changing again
He wasn't socially awkward
and just strange as a kid
He had a father and his mother
wasn't crazy as ****
And he never dreamed he
can rip stadiums
And just lazy as ****
**** a talent show in
the gymnasium *****
You won't amount to ****
Quit day dreaming kid
You need to get your
cranium checked
You thinking like an alien
It just ain't realistic
Now pretend they ain't just
make him angry with this ****
And there was no one he
could even name when
he's ****** at
And his alarm went off
to wake him but he didn't
make it to the Rap Olympics
Slept through his plane
and he missed it
He's going to have
a hard time explaining
to Haley and Laney
These food stamps
and this WIC ****
'Cause he never risked ****
He hoped and he wished it
But it didn't fall in his lap
so he ain't even
here it he pretends that
Airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now
Can we pretend
that airplanes
In the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use
a wish right now
Wish right now
Wish right now