Airplanes
B.o.B Feat Hayley Williams & Eminem Lyrics

Can we pretend that airplanes
B.o.B wishes that airplanes in the sky were shooting stars.

In the night sky
He is specifically imagining airplanes at night.

Is like shooting stars
He wants airplanes to be like shooting stars, something to wish upon.

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
He wishes for something in his life at this moment.

Let's pretend like its '98
B.o.B wants to go back in time to 1998.

Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays
B.o.B is remembering his humble beginnings.

Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A
B.o.B dreamed of being a successful rapper from Atlanta.

Hoping for a record deal, to re-know my pain
B.o.B hoped for a record deal so people would hear his music and understand his struggles.

Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage
B.o.B imagines himself performing on stage.

And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (ok)
B.o.B's music is so good that it makes the crowd go wild.

And everybody know my name (B.o.B)
B.o.B is famous and everyone knows him by his stage name.

And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sang
People everywhere want to hear B.o.B's music.

Oh yea and I just dropped my new album
B.o.B just released a new album.

On the first week I did five hundred thousand
B.o.B's new album was a huge success and sold 500,000 copies in the first week.

Gold in the spring and diamond in the fall
B.o.B's album was certified gold and then diamond.

And then a world tour just to top it all off
B.o.B went on a successful world tour.

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest
B.o.B imagines being considered the best rapper ever.

Selling out arenas with big ass stages
B.o.B imagines performing in arenas with huge stages.

And everybody loved me and no one ever hated
B.o.B was well-loved by everyone in his imaginary world.

Let's try to use imagination
The song is all about using imagination to escape.

Okay, let's pretend like this never happened
B.o.B wants to forget about his struggles and start fresh.

Like I never had dreams of being a rapper
B.o.B wants to forget about his desire to be a musician.

Like I didn't write raps in all of my classes
B.o.B wants to forget about spending his time writing lyrics instead of paying attention in class.

Like I never used to runaway into the blackness
B.o.B wants to forget about running away from his problems.

Now let's pretend like it was all-good
B.o.B wants to imagine that everything was always perfect for him.

Like I didn't live starring in a notebook
B.o.B wants to forget about the times he felt like his life was only in his notebook.

Like I did the things I probably knew I should
B.o.B regrets not doing the things he knew he should have done.

But I didn't have neighbors that's why they call it hood
B.o.B is saying he had a tough life because he grew up in a poor neighborhood.

Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name
B.o.B wants to ignore his stage name and reputation.

Before they ever called me B.o.B or a.k.a Bobby Ray
He wants to forget his previous stage names.

I'm talking back before the mixtapes
B.o.B wants to forget about his early musical career.

Before the videos and the deals and the fame
B.o.B longs for simpler times when he wasn't famous.

Before they ever once compared me to Andre
B.o.B is saying he was compared to Andre 3000 from Outkast.

Before I ever got Myspace
B.o.B wrote music before Myspace existed.

Before they ever noticed my face
B.o.B wants to go back to a time when no one knew who he was.

So let's just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
B.o.B wants to use his imagination to imagine a better life.

Let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
B.o.B is pretending Eminem never became a rapper.

Let's pretend things would've been no different
B.o.B imagines his life would be the same even if Eminem never existed.

Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation
B.o.B is imagining Eminem lacking motivation and procrastinating.

Pretend he just made excuses that
B.o.B imagines Eminem would just make excuses.

Was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind
Eminem's excuses would be weak and easily blown away.

Marshall you never gone make it,
B.o.B is saying Eminem wouldn't have been successful.

Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win
B.o.B is saying it's pointless to try to succeed.

Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends
B.o.B is imagining Eminem spending all day playing with his friends.

Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
B.o.B imagines Eminem having a true friend.

And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again
B.o.B refers to Eminem's struggles with social situations.

He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
B.o.B imagines Eminem having a more normal childhood.

He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit
B.o.B is saying Eminem had a more stable home life.

And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit
B.o.B imagines Eminem not having big dreams and being lazy.

Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch
B.o.B is saying talent shows in school don't matter.

You won't amount to shit quit day dreaming kid
B.o.B is saying Eminem won't be successful.

You need to get ya cranium check you thinking like an alien
B.o.B is saying Eminem's thinking is abnormal.

It just ain't realistic
B.o.B is saying Eminem's dreams are unrealistic.

Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit
B.o.B is saying Eminem would be angry if he heard this song.

And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with
B.o.B is saying Eminem would have 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
B.o.B imagines Eminem missing an important rap competition.

He slept through his plane and he missed it
B.o.B imagines Eminem missing a flight.

He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney these food stamps and W-I-C shit
B.o.B is saying Eminem would struggle to explain poverty to his daughters.

'Cause he never risked shit, he hoped and he wished it
B.o.B imagines Eminem being too afraid to take risks.

But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even hear it he pretends that
Eminem pretends to ignore his lack of success.

Airplanes
The song is called 'Airplanes'.

In the night sky
The song refers to airplanes in the night sky.

Is like shooting stars
B.o.B compares airplanes to shooting stars.

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
B.o.B still wishes for something, even after imagining a better life.