Part II
N.O.B.L.E. Lyrics

Can we pretend that airplanes
Let's imagine that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars

In the night sky
Up in the darkness under the stars

Is like shooting stars
Fly by quickly and disappear like meteorites

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I need some hope or fulfillment in my life at this moment

Let's pretend like its '98
Imagine that it's 1998 again

Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays
Similar to my school days, when I had no luxury

Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A
I aspired to be an acclaimed rapper from Atlanta

Hoping for a record deal, to re-know my pain
I desire a contract from a label, so that my feelings get recognition

Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage
Let's imagine that I'm performing in front of an audience

And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (ok)
And people go wild as soon as the music starts playing

And everybody know my name (B.o.B)
Everyone recognizes me as B.o.B

And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sang
People follow me everywhere, to listen to my songs

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

On the first week I did five hundred thousand
Within the first week, I sold 500K copies

Gold in the spring and diamond in the fall
By spring, my album went gold and by fall, it went diamond

And then a world tour just to top it all off
I concluded my success by going on a world tour

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest
Let's imitate, being referred to as the greatest

Selling out arenas with big ass stages
My concerts sold out immediately, despite having huge stages

And everybody loved me and no one ever hated
Everybody admired me, and not a single person expressed hate

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

Okay, let's pretend like this never happened
Alright, let's imagine that none of this occurred

Like I never had dreams of being a rapper
And I never hoped to become a successful rap artist

Like I didn't write raps in all of my classes
And I didn't compose rap songs in all of my subjects

Like I never used to runaway into the blackness
And I never ran away into darkness

Now let's pretend like it was all-good
Let's imagine that everything is perfectly fine

Like I didn't live starring in a notebook
Like my life wasn't a story written in a book

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

But I didn't have neighbors that's why they call it hood
But I never lived in a challenging neighborhood where people call their home hoods

Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name
Now, let's assume that I don't have a stage name

Before they ever called me B.o.B or a.k.a Bobby Ray
Before I got famous and was known as B.o.B or Bobby Ray

I'm talking back before the mixtapes
I'm referring to the time before the release of my mixtapes

Before the videos and the deals and the fame
Way before I got famous or started getting record deals, and making music videos

Before they ever once compared me to Andre
Before they compared me to Andre 3000, a famous rapper

Before I ever got Myspace
Before I created my Myspace account to promote my music

Before they ever noticed my face
Way before people recognized me for who I am

So let's just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
Therefore, let's imagine and hope that our wishes could be accomplished via airplanes

Let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
Now let's suppose that Marshall Mathers never wrote any raps

Let's pretend things would've been no different
Let's imagine things wouldn't have been any different

Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation
Assume he always put off things he wanted to do and had no motivation

Pretend he just made excuses that
Let's pretend that he always made excuses for himself

Was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind
Such that his reasons seemed hollow and could be easily dismissed

Marshall you never gone make it,
The people called him Marshall, and they told him he could never be successful

Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win
They advised him that it's illogical to pursue a career in rap since he can't win

Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends
Imagine, he just played with his friends outside throughout the day

Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
Let's pretend he had a good friend in his life

And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again
It wasn't time for him to move schools and start his life over yet again

He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
He wasn't a socially inept and unusual child

He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit
He was fortunate enough to have a father, and his mother wasn't mentally unstable

And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit
He never envisioned selling out stadiums, he was too lazy to imagine it

Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch
No amount of talent would stand out in a small gymnasium setting

You won't amount to shit quit day dreaming kid
They told him that he was wasting his time daydreaming since he'd never succeed

You need to get ya cranium check you thinking like an alien
They thought something was wrong with his head, and his dreams were crazy and alien-like

It just ain't realistic
According to them, his dreams were far-fetched and unrealistic

Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit
Let's imagine that their comments didn't make him feel angrier

And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with
He had nobody to be angry with

And his alarm went off to wake him, but he didn't make it to the rap Olympics
When his alarm went off to wake him up for the rap Olympics, he didn't make it there in time

He slept through his plane and he missed it
He missed his plane since he fell asleep and couldn't wake up in time to board it.

He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney
He'd have a hard time explaining to his daughters, Haley and Laney

these food stamps and W-I-C shit
Why he needed food stamps and WIC (a program that provides nutritional assistance to low-income pregnant and postpartum women) assistance

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

But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even hear it he pretends that
When it didn't come easily to him, he didn't bother and pretended like it never happened