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
(ya) Let's pretend like it's '98 Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A (A-town) Hoping for a record deal to ignore my pain (ya) Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (woo) Okay And everybody know my name and everywhere I go people wanna hear me sing (oh) 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 called me the greatest selling out arenas with big ass stages And everybody loved me and no one ever hated Let's try to use imagination
Okay let's pretend like this never happened (never) Like I never had dreams of being a rapper (rapper) Like I didn't write raps up in all of my classes Like I never used to run away into the blackness Now let's pretend like it was all good (good) like I didn't live staring in a notebook (notebook) Like I did the things that I probably knew I should (should) But I ain't have neighbours that's why they call it hood (hood yeah) Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name before they ever call me BOB aka Bobby ray I'm talking back before the mixtapes (yeah) before the videos and the deals and the fame Before the 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
And it seems like yesterday it was just a dream But those days are gone (gone gone) and just memories (oh oh) And it seems like yesterday it was just a dream But those days are gone (gone gone)
Alright let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen Let's pretend things would have been no different Pretend he procrastinated had no motivation Pretend he just made excuses that were so paper thin they could blow away with the wind Marshall, you're never gonna 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 schools were changing again He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit And he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as shit Fuck a talent show in a gymnasium, bitch, you won't amount to shit quit daydreaming 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 shit and there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed at And his alarm went off to wake him off but he didn't make it to the rap Olympics Slept to his plane and he missed it He's gon' have a hard time explaining to Hailey and Laney these food stamps and this 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
Airplanes in the night sky 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
