Airplanes Pt. II
B.o.B Lyrics

Can we pretend that airplanes
Can we imagine that airplanes

In the night sky
At night time

Are like shooting stars
Look like stars that shoot across the sky

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I need a wish or some good luck right now

Let's pretend like its '98,
Let's imagine that it's 1998

Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays
Like I'm eating from disposable trays

Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A
Attempting to be the next rapper from Atlanta

Hoping for a record deal, to re-know my pain
Wishing for a record deal to express my struggles

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

And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (OK)
When the music drops, everyone gets excited

And everybody know my name (B.o.B)
Everyone is familiar with my stage name

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

Oh yea and I just dropped my new album
I have just released a new album

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

Gold in the spring and diamond in the fall
The album went gold in the spring and diamond in the fall

And then a world tour just to top it all off
To conclude, I went on a world tour

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest
Let's imagine that they consider me the best

Selling out arenas with big ass stages
Performing at sold-out arenas with large stages

And everybody loved me and no one ever hated
Everyone adored me and there was no negativity

Let's try to use imagination
Let's use our creativity

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

Like I never had dreams of being a rapper
Like I never had aspirations to be a rapper

Like I didn't write raps in all of my classes
Like I didn't write rap lyrics in every class

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

Now let's pretend like it was all-good
Now let's say that everything was great

Like I didn't live starring in a notebook
Like I didn't live through a notebook full of lyrics

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

But I didn't have neighbors that's why they call it hood
But I did not have neighbors, which is why it's called a hood

Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name
Now let's pretend that I'm not famous

Before they ever called me B.o.B or a.k.a Bobby Ray
Before they called me B.o.B or Bobby Ray

I'm talking back before the mixtapes
Talking about before I even released mixtapes

Before the videos and the deals and the fame
Before music videos, record deals, and fame

Before they ever once compared me to Andre
Before they compared me to Andre 3000

Before I ever got Myspace
Before I joined Myspace

Before they ever noticed my face
Before people recognized me

So let's just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
Let's just imagine and make wishes on airplanes

Let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
Let's imagine Eminem never started rapping

Let's pretend things would've been no different
Let's say nothing would have changed

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

Pretend he just made excuses that
Imagine he just made excuses that

Was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind
Were so weak they could blow away with the wind

Marshall you never gone make it,
Eminem, you will never succeed

Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win
It makes no sense to try, there's no way you will win

Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends
Imagine he just hangs out with friends all day

Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
Imagine he even had a friend that he considered a friend

And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again
And it was not time to switch to another school

He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
He was not weird and socially awkward as a child

He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit
He had a normal family with a sane mother and a present father

And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit
He never dreamed that he could fill up stadiums, he was just lazy

Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch
Forget a talent show in the gymnasium, stupid

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

You need to get ya cranium check you thinking like an alien
You should get your head checked, you're thinking like an alien

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

Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit
Now imagine they didn't just make him mad with this

And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with
And there was no one to 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, but he didn't make it to the rap competition

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

He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney these food stamps and W-I-C shit
He will have a difficult time explaining to his children about receiving government assistance for food

'Cause he never risked shit, he hoped and he wished it
Because he never took any risks, he merely hoped and wished

But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even hear it he pretends that
Since he did not receive it automatically, he ignores it and pretends