[Chorus - Williams] Can we pretend airplanes In the sky Are shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (Wish now, wish right now) Can we that airplanes In the sky Are like stars I could really use a wish now (Wish right now, wish right now)
(Dreaming, of falling, dreaming, of falling)
1 - B.o.B] Let's pretend like its '98, I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays Trying to be the next rapper out the A for a record deal, to renew my fame Now let's like I'm on the stage And when my drops everybody goes insane (Okay) And everybody know my (B.o.B) And everywhere I go people want to hear me Oh yeah, and I just my new album On the first week I did hundred thousand Gold in the spring, and diamond in the And then a world just to top it all off And let's pretend they call me the greatest out arenas with big ass stages And everybody me and no one ever hated try to use imagination
2 - B.o.B] Okay, pretend like this never happened Like I had dreams of being a rapper I didn't write raps up in all of my classes Like I never to runaway into the blackness Now, let's pretend like it was all Like I didn't live staring in a Like I did the that I probably knew I should But I ain't have that's why they call it hood Now pretend like I ain't got a name Before they ever called me B.o.B or A.K.A Ray I'm back before the mix tapes the videos, and the deals, and the fame Before ever once compared me to Andre Before I ever got on Before they noticed my face So let's just pretend and wishes out of airplanes
And it seems yesterday it was just a dream But those days are gone, just memories And it like yesterday it was just a dream But those days are gone, they're memories
[Verse 3 - Let's pretend, Marshall Mathers never up a pen pretend, things would've been no different Pretend he procrastinated had no Pretend he made excuses that was so paper thin They blow away with the wind you never going to make it Makes no sense to play the game there no way that'll you win he just stayed outside all day and played with his friends Pretend he even had a friend to say was his And it wasn't time to move, and schools weren't changing He socially awkward and just strange as a kid He had a father and his wasn't crazy as shit And he dreamed he can rip stadiums And just lazy as a talent show in the gymnasium bitch You amount to shit, quit day dreaming kid You need to get your cranium You like an alien, it just ain't realistic Now pretend they just make him angry with this shit And was no one he could even name when he's pissed at And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it to the Rap Slept through his plane and he it going to have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney These food and this WIC shit he never risked shit, he hoped and he wished it But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even, it he pretends that