[Chorus - Hayley Can we pretend that In the sky Are shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (Wish right now, wish now) Can we pretend that In the sky Are like stars I really use a wish right 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 Hoping for a record deal, to renew my Now let's pretend I'm on the stage And when my beat 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 dropped my new On the first week I did five hundred in the spring, and diamond in the fall And a world tour just to top it all off And let's pretend they call me the greatest Selling out with big ass stages And everybody me and no one ever hated try to use imagination
2 - B.o.B] Okay, let's like this never happened Like I never had dreams of being a Like I write raps up in all of my classes Like I never used to runaway into the Now, let's like it was all good Like I didn't live in a notebook Like I did the that I probably knew I should But I have neighbors that's why they call it hood Now let's pretend like I ain't got a Before ever called me B.o.B or A.K.A Bobby Ray I'm talking back the mix tapes Before the videos, and the deals, and the Before ever once compared me to Andre Before I got on MySpace Before they noticed my face So let's pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
And it seems like yesterday it was a dream But those are gone, they're just memories And it seems like yesterday it was just a But those are gone, they're just memories
[Verse 3 - Let's pretend, Marshall Mathers picked up a pen pretend, things would've been no different Pretend he procrastinated had no Pretend he just made that was so paper thin They could away with the wind you never going to make it Makes no sense to play the there ain't no way that'll you win Pretend he just outside all day and played with his friends he even had a friend to say was his friend And it time to move, and schools weren't changing again He wasn't socially awkward and strange as a kid He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as And he never he can rip stadiums And lazy as shit Fuck a show in the gymnasium bitch You amount to shit, quit day dreaming kid You need to get your cranium You thinking like an alien, it just ain't Now pretend ain't just make him angry with this shit And there was no one he could even name he's pissed at And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't it to the Rap Olympics Slept through his and he missed it He's going to have a hard explaining to Haley and Laney These food stamps and this WIC Cause he never shit, he hoped and he wished it But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even, it he pretends that