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

Can we pretend that airplanes
Let's imagine that airplanes

In the night sky
When it's dark outside

Is like shooting stars
Are similar to a shooting star

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I could really use some good luck or a miracle right now, I'm desperate for it

(Dreamin', of fallin, dreamin', of fallin')
Thinking about falling or failing

Let's pretend like its '98
Let's act as if it's the year 1998

Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays
Like I'm still in school and don't have much money

Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A
Trying to become the next rap superstar coming from Atlanta

Hoping for a record deal, to re-know my pain
Hoping a record company will sign me and understand the pain I have been through

Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage
Now let's imagine I'm a famous performer on stage

And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (ok)
And when my music starts to play, everyone gets excited and energetic (ok)

And everybody know my name (B.o.B)
And everyone knows who I am (B.o.B is his stage name)

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

Oh yea and I just dropped my new album
Oh yeah, and I just 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
It was certified gold in the spring and then diamond in the fall

And then a world tour just to top it all off
And then I went on a world tour to finish it all off

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest
And let's imagine that people call me the greatest

Selling out arenas with big ass stages
Performing in sold-out arenas with huge stages

And everybody loved me and no one ever hated
And everyone loved me, no one ever hated me

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

Okay, let's pretend like this never happened
Alright, now let's imagine that certain things never happened

Like I never had dreams of being a rapper
Like I never wanted to become a rapper

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

Like I never used to runaway into the blackness
Like I never used to run away and stay in dark places

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

Like I didn't live starring in a notebook
Like I didn't live through difficult situations and write them in a notebook

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

But I didn't have neighbors that's why they call it hood
But I didn't live in a poor neighborhood, that's why it's called a hood

Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name
Now let's imagine that I'm not well-known

Before they ever called me B.o.B or a.k.a Bobby Ray
Before I had the stage name B.o.B or the nickname Bobby Ray

I'm talking back before the mixtapes
I'm talking about a time before I recorded my own music

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

Before they ever once compared me to Andre
Before they compared me to the legendary rapper Andre 3000

Before I ever got Myspace
Before I even had a Myspace account

Before they ever noticed my face
Before anyone recognized me or knew what I looked like

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

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

Let's pretend things would've been no different
Let's imagine that everything would have been the same if Eminem never rapped

Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation
Let's imagine that he was lazy and had no drive or ambition

Pretend he just made excuses that
Let's pretend that he only made excuses instead of taking action

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

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

Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win
It doesn't make any sense to even try because you won't win

Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends
Let's pretend that he wasted his time hanging out with friends all day

Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
Let's imagine he didn't even have a real friend to call a friend

And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again
And it wasn't time to move schools or change his life again

He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
He wasn't socially awkward and weird when he was younger

He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit
He had a good relationship with his father and his mother was not insane

And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit
He never imagined that he could sell out stadiums, he was just lazy

Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch
Fuck performing in a talent show in the school's gym

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

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

It just ain't realistic
It's just not realistic to think that you can become a famous rapper

Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit
Now let's imagine that these words didn't just make him angry

And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with
And there was no one to blame when he was mad

And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it to the rap Olympics
And his alarm clock went off to wake him up, but he missed the rap competition

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

He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney these food stamps and W-I-C shit
He's going to have a hard time explaining to his daughters why they need to use food stamps or government assistance

'Cause he never risked shit, he hoped and he wished it
He never took any risks, he 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 success didn't come easily to him, and he pretends like it never happened

Airplanes
Airplanes

In the night sky
When it's dark outside

Is like shooting stars
Are similar to a shooting star

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I could really use some good luck or a miracle right now, I'm desperate for it