Airplanes
B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams and Eminem Lyrics

Can we pretend that airplanes
Let's imagine or pretend that airplanes

In the night sky
Up in the dark sky

Is like shooting stars
Are similar to shooting or falling stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I need a wish or good fortune at the moment

Let's pretend like its '98
Let's imagine we are in 1998

Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays
When I was young, I had to eat lunch off of cheap and disposable trays

Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A
I aspire to become the next big rapper from Atlanta or 'the A'

Hoping for a record deal, to re-know my pain
I desire to get a record deal to share my struggles and pain with the world

Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage
Now let's imagine I am on stage

And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (ok)
When the beat of the song starts playing, everyone goes wild or crazy

And everybody know my name (B.o.B)
Everyone recognizes and knows my stage name

And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sang
Wherever I go, people want to hear me sing

Oh yea and I just dropped my new album
I recently released my new album

On the first week I did five hundred thousand
In the first week, I sold 500,000 copies of my album

Gold in the spring and diamond in the fall
My album went gold in the spring and diamond in the fall, meaning it was a big success

And then a world tour just to top it all off
I went on a world tour to end it all on a high note

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest
Let's imagine people call me the greatest rapper ever

Selling out arenas with big ass stages
I perform in sold-out arenas with huge stages

And everybody loved me and no one ever hated
Everyone loves me and I have no haters

Let's try to use imagination
Let's use our imagination and be creative

Okay, let's pretend like this never happened
Alright, let's imagine this never occurred

Like I never had dreams of being a rapper
Like I never dreamed of becoming a rapper

Like I didn't write raps in all of my classes
Like I never wrote rap lyrics in all of my classes

Like I never used to runaway into the blackness
Like I never used to run away or escape into the darkness

Now let's pretend like it was all-good
Now let's imagine everything was good or fine

Like I didn't live starring in a notebook
Like I didn't live my life as a character in a notebook or fictional story

Like I did the things I probably knew I should
Like I did the right things that I probably should have done

But I didn't have neighbors that's why they call it hood
But I didn't have neighbors, which is why they referred to it as 'the hood'

Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name
Now let's imagine I don't have a name or reputation

Before they ever called me B.o.B or a.k.a Bobby Ray
Before I was known as B.o.B or my real name, Bobby Ray

I'm talking back before the mixtapes
I'm referring to a time before I released any mixtapes

Before the videos and the deals and the fame
Before I made any music videos, signed any record deals, or became famous

Before they ever once compared me to Andre
Before anyone ever compared me to Andre, another famous rapper

Before I ever got Myspace
Before I got famous through the social network Myspace

Before they ever noticed my face
Before anyone noticed or recognized me

So let's just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
So let's pretend and make wishes like we did when we were younger

Let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
Let's imagine if Eminem, or Marshall Mathers, never became a rapper

Let's pretend things would've been no different
Let's imagine that nothing would have changed if he never became a rapper

Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation
Imagine if he always procrastinated and lacked motivation

Pretend he just made excuses that
Imagine if he always made excuses that

Was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind
His excuses were so weak and flimsy that they could easily be dismissed

Marshall you never gone make it,
People telling him that he will never make it

Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win
It's pointless to try and make it in the music industry because he will never succeed

Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends
Imagine if he just stood outside all day and played with his friends

Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
Imagine if he had a true friend who considered him their friend

And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again
Imagine if he didn't have to change schools again during that time

He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
Imagine if he didn't have any social or behavioral issues as a kid and was well-liked by others

He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit
Imagine if he had a present father figure and his mother wasn't mentally unstable

And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit
Imagine if he never dreamed of performing in large stadiums and was just lazy

Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch
Screw a talent show in the gymnasium, woman

You won't amount to shit quit day dreaming kid
You won't achieve anything, so stop daydreaming, kid

You need to get ya cranium check you thinking like an alien
You need to get your head checked because your thoughts are not normal or sane

It just ain't realistic
It's just not realistic or possible

Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit
Now imagine that the comments didn't make him angry

And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with
And there was no one he could direct his anger towards

And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it to the rap Olympics
His alarm went off to wake him up for the competition, but he missed it and didn't participate in the rap Olympics

He slept through his plane and he missed it
He overslept and missed his flight

He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney these food stamps and W-I-C shit
He's going to struggle to explain to his daughters, Haley and Laney, his financial difficulties and reliance on food stamps and WIC

'Cause he never risked shit, he hoped and he wished it
Because he never took any risks and just hoped and wished for success

But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even hear it he pretends that
But since success never came easily to him, he ignores it and continues to pretend that he will make it someday

Airplanes
Aircrafts that travel through the air

In the night sky
In the dark sky

Is like shooting stars
Are similar to shooting or falling stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I really need a wish or good fortune at this moment