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