Poofin' Part 2
P.A.B. Lyrics

Can we pretend that airplanes
Let's imagine that airplanes

In the night sky
Up in the sky at night

Is like shooting stars
It looks like falling stars in the sky from a distance

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I really need something positive to happen in my life

Let's pretend like its '98
Let's go back in time to the year 1998

Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays
Like I'm just an ordinary person eating inexpensive food

Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A
Striving to be a successful rapper in Atlanta, Georgia

Hoping for a record deal, to re-know my pain
Desiring a recording contract for my music to become successful and relatable to others

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

And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (ok)
When the beat of my song picks up, the crowd goes wild

And everybody know my name (B.o.B)
Everyone in the crowd knows who I am as an artist

And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sang
People love my music and request for me to perform everywhere

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

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

Gold in the spring and diamond in the fall
My album was certified gold earlier in the year and diamond later in the year

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

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest
Imagine if I am regarded as the best in the industry

Selling out arenas with big ass stages
Performing in sold-out arenas with large stages and crowds

And everybody loved me and no one ever hated
Everyone adores me and there is no negative criticism

Let's try to use imagination
Let's use our creativity and imagine something better

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

Like I never had dreams of being a rapper
Like I never had aspirations of becoming a musician

Like I didn't write raps in all of my classes
Like I didn't compose lyrics to my songs in every class

Like I never used to runaway into the blackness
Like I didn't run away from my problems and hide in the darkness

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

Like I didn't live starring in a notebook
Like I didn't use my notebook as a script for my life

Like I did the things I probably knew I should
Like I did everything I was expected to do

But I didn't have neighbors that's why they call it hood
But I didn't have any neighbors, that's why my living conditions were poor

Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name
Now let's suppose I'm unknown and have no notoriety

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

I'm talking back before the mixtapes
I'm talking about the time before I made mixtapes as a musician

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 ever compared my style to that of Andre 3000

Before I ever got Myspace
Before I ever had a Myspace page

Before they ever noticed my face
Before anyone noticed me as an artist or knew who I was

So let's just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
So let's use our imagination and make wishes out of airplanes

Let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
Let's envision Eminem never becoming a musician

Let's pretend things would've been no different
Let's imagine that nothing in the world changed as a result

Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation
Imagine if he always procrastinated and had no drive to succeed

Pretend he just made excuses that
Imagine if he made excuses for everything

Was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind
These excuses were very weak and could easily be dismissed

Marshall you never gone make it,
Eminem, you're never going to become successful

Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win
There's no point in playing the music industry's game because you'll never win

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

Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
Imagine if he even had a friend who was actually his friend

And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again
And imagine if he didn't have to move schools and make new friends again

He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
Imagine if he wasn't socially awkward and strange as a child

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

And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit
He never even had the ambition to perform in stadiums, he was just lazy

Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch
He didn't even care about performing at a talent show in the school gymnasium

You won't amount to shit quit day dreaming kid
You'll never become anything, stop dreaming

You need to get ya cranium check you thinking like an alien
You need to get your head checked, your thoughts are crazy

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

Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit
Now imagine that all of this didn't make him upset

And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with
And he had no one to take his anger out on

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

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 kids why they need food stamps and WIC government assistance

'Cause he never risked shit, he hoped and he wished it
Because he never took any risks to achieve his dreams, he just hoped and wished for things to happen

But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even hear it he pretends that
But nothing ever fell into his lap, so he pretends like it never happened

Airplanes
Airplanes flying in the sky

In the night sky
Up in the sky at night

Is like shooting stars
It appears like falling stars in the sky from a distance

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
I really need something positive to happen in my life