[Chorus: Hayley Williams]

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky

Are like shooting stars?

I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky

Are like shooting stars?

I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now

[Post-Chorus: B.o.B & Hayley Williams]

Dreaming (Oh, oh-oh)

Of fallin' (Mmm, mmm)

Dreamin' (Oh, oh-oh, ah)

Of fallin', yeah (Ah)

[Verse 1: B.o.B]

Let's pretend like it's '98 ('98)

Like I'm eatin' lunch off of Styrofoam trays (Yeah)

Tryna be the next rapper comin' out the A (A-Town)

Hopin' for a record deal to ignore my pain, yeah

Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage (Check)

And when my beat drops, everybody goes insane (Woo)

Okay, and everybody know my name (Bob)

And everywhere I go, people wanna hear me sang (Come on)

Oh, yeah, and I just dropped my new album

On the first week, I did five-hunnid-thousand (Yes)

Gold in the spring, and diamond in the fall (Okay)

And then a world tour just to top it all off (Ah)

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest (Yup)

Sellin' out arenas with big-ass stages (Ow)

And everybody loved me, and no one ever hated (Hm)

Just try to use imagination

[Chorus: Hayley Williams & B.o.B]

Can we pretend that

Airplanes in the night sky are like

Shooting stars? (Shooting stars) I could really use a

Wish right now (Wish right now,) wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now,) can we pretend that

Airplanes in the night sky are like

Shooting stars? (Shooting stars) I could really use a

Wish right now (Wish right now,) wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

[Verse 2: B.o.B]

Okay

Let's pretend like this never happened (Never)

Like I never had dreams of bein' a rapper (Rapper)

Like I didn't write raps up in all of my classes (Classes)

Like I never used to run away into the blackness, now (Yeah)

Let's pretend like it was all good (Good)

Like I didn't live starin' in a notebook (Notebook)

Like I did the things that I probably knew I should (Should)

But I ain't have neighbors, that's why they call it hood (Hood)

Yeah, now let's pretend like I ain't got a name (No)

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

I'm talkin' back before the mixtapes (Cloud 9)

Before the videos and the deals and the fame (Yeah)

Before they ever once compared me to André (3 Stacks)

Before I ever got on MySpace (Yeah)

Before they ever noticed my face (Yeah), so let's just pretend

And make wishes outta airplanes

[Chorus: Hayley Williams & B.o.B]

Can we pretend that

Airplanes in the night sky are like

Shooting stars? (Shooting stars) I could really use a

Wish right now (Wish right now,) wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now,) can we pretend that

Airplanes in the night sky are like

Shooting stars? (Shooting stars) I could really use a

Wish right now (Wish right now,) wish right now (Wish right now)

Wish right now (Wish right now)

[Bridge: B.o.B., Hayley Williams, Eminem, B.o.B & Eminem]

And it seems like

Yesterday it was just a dream

But those days are gone

They're just memories

(Oh) And it seems like

Yesterday it was just a dream

But those days are gone

All right

[Verse 3: Eminem]

Let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen

Let's pretend things woulda been no different

Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation

Pretend he just made excuses that were so paper thin

They could blow 'way with the wind, "Marshall, you're never gonna make it

Makes no sense to play the game, there ain't no way that you'll win"

Pretend he just stayed outside all day and played with his friends

Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend

And it wasn't time to move and schools weren't changin' again

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

He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit

And he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as shit

"Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium, bitch"

"You won't amount to shit—quit daydreamin', kid"

"You need to get your cranium checked." "You're thinkin' like an alien

It just ain't realistic." Now pretend

They ain't just make him angry with this shit

And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed at

And his alarm went off to wake him, but he didn't make it

To the Rap Olympics, slept through his plane and he missed it

He's gon' have a hard time explainin' to Hailie and Lainey

These food stamps and this WIC shit, ‘cause he never risked shit

He hoped, and he wished it, but it didn't fall in his lap

So he ain't even here, he pretends that—

[Chorus: Hayley Williams]

Airplanes in the night sky are like

Shooting stars? I could really use a

Wish right now, wish right now

Wish right now, can we pretend that

Airplanes in the night sky are like

Shooting stars? I could really use a

Wish right now, wish right now

Wish right now

[Outro: Hayley Williams]

Oh, oh, oh, ooh

Mm

Ah

Oh, oh, oh, ooh

Mm