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 Dreaming of falling Dreaming of falling Yeah, let's pretend like it's 98 Like I'm eating lunch off a styrofoam tray Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A Hoping for a record deal to ignore my pain Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage And when my beat drops everybody goes insane And everybody know my name And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sing Oh yeah, and I just dropped my new album On the first week I did 500,000 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 Selling out arenas with big stages And everybody love me and no one ever hate it Just 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, 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 Okay, let's pretend like this never happened Like I never had dreams of being a 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 Like I didn't live staring in a notebook Like I did the things that I probably knew I should But I ain't have neighbors, that's why they call it hood Yeah, now let's pretend like I ain't got a name Before they ever call me B.O.B. or A.K.A. Bobby Ray I'm talking back before the mixtape Before the videos and the deals and the fame Before they 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 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 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 Alright, let's pretend Most of my vids never picked up a pen Let's pretend things would've 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 weren't changing again He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as s*** And he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as s*** A talent show in the gymnasium, you want him out the s*** Quit daydreaming 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 making him angry with this And there 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 olympics Slept through his plan and he missed it He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney These food stamps and this weak s*** Cause he never wished, 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 are like shooting stars I can 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 can really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now you