Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, a wish right now, a wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, a wish right now, a wish right now

Lets pretend like its '98, like I'm eatin' lunch off of a Styrofoam trays
Tryin' to be the next rapper comin' out the A
Hopin' for a record deal, to ignore my pain
Now lets pretend like I'm on the stage
And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (Ok)
And everybody know my name (B.o.B)
And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sang
Oh yeah, and I just dropped my new album
On the first week I did 500 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
Sellin' out arenas with big-ass 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, a wish right now, a wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, a wish right now, a wish right now

Ok, let's pretend like this never happened
Like I never had dreams of being a rapper
Like I didn't write raps in all of my classes
Like I never use to run away into the blackness
Now let's pretend like it was all-good
Like I didn't live starrin' in a notebook
Like I did the things that I probably knew I should
But I ainy have neighbors that's why they call it hood
Now lets pretend like I aint got a name
Before they ever called me B.o.B or a.k.a Bobby Ray
I'm talkin' back before the mixtapes
Before the videos and the deals and the fame
Before they once compared me to Andre
Before I ever got my space
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, a wish right now, a wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, a wish right now, a 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 woulda 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.
Marshal you're never gone make it, makes no sense to play the game there ain't no way that you'll 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 school weren't changin' again
He wasn't socially awakard and just strange as a kid
He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit

And he never dreamed he can rip stadiums a d just lazy as shit
Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium, bitch!
You won't amount to shit quit daydreamin' kid!
You need to get your cranium checked. You're thinking like an alien, it just ain't realistic.
Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit
And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed at.
And his alarm went off to wake him but he did'nt make it to the rap Olympics
Slept through his plane and he missed it.
He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Hailie and Lainey these food stamps and WIC shit
Cause he never risked shit he hoped and he wished it
But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even here, he pretends that.

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, a wish right now, a wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, a wish right now, a wish right now