| Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
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| I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
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| Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
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| I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
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| Dreaming.
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| (oh oh oh oh)
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| Of falling (mmm mmm mmm mmm)
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| Dreaming (ooh oh oh oh)
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| (ya) Lets pretend like it’s 98
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| like i’m eating lunch off of styrofoam trays
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| trying to be the next rapper comin out the A (A-town)
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| Hoping for a record deal to ignore my pain (ya)
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| now lets pretend like i’m on the stage
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| and when my beat drops everybody goes insane (woo)
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| okay
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| and everybody know my name and everywhere I go people wanna hear me sing (oh)
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| oh yeah and I just dropped my new album on the first week I did Five-Hundred
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| Thousand
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| gold in the spring and diamond in the fall and then a world tour just to top it all off
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| and lets pretend like they called me the greatest selling out arenas with big
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| ass stages
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| and everybody loved me and no-one ever hated
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| lets try to use imagination
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| Okay lets pretend like this never happened (never)
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| like I never had dreams of being a rapper (rapper)
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| like I didn’t write raps up in all of my classes
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| like I never used to run away into the blackness
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| now lets pretend like it was all good (good) like i didn’t live staring in a notebook (notebook)
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| like I did the things that i probably knew i should (should)
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| but Ii aint have neighbours thats why they call it hood (hood yeah)
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| now lets pretend like i aint got a name before they ever call me BOB aka Bobby
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| ray
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| i’m talking back before the mixtapes (yeah) before the videos and the deals and
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| the fame
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| before the ever once compared me to Andre before i ever got on Myspace
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| before they ever noticed my face so lets just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
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| and it seems like yesterday it was just a dream
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| but those days are gone (gone gone) and just memories
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| (oh oh)
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| and it seems like yesterday it was just a dream
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| but those days are gone (gone gone)
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| allright lets pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
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| lets pretend things would have been no different
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| pretend he procrastinated had no motivation
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| pretend he just made excuses that were so paper thin they could blow away with
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| the wind
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| marshall you’re never gonna make it makes no sense to play the game there ain’t
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| no way that you’ll win
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| pretend he just stayed outside all day and played with his friends
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| pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
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| and it wasn’t time to move and schools were changing again
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| he wasn’t socially awkward and just strange as a kid
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| he had a father and his mother wasn’t crazy as sh-t
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| and he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as sh-t
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| f-ck a talent show in a gymnasium bitch you won’t amount to sh-t quit
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| daydreaming kid
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| you need to get your cranium checked you thinking like an alien it just ain’t
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| realistic
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| now pretend they ain’t just make him angry with this sh-t and there was no one
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| he could even aim when he’s pissed it and his alarm went off to wake him off but he didn’t make it to the rap
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| Olympics left to his plane and he missed it he’s gon' have a hard time explaining to Hailey and Laney these food stamps and
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| this wick shit
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| cuz he never risked shit he hopes and he wished it but it didn’t fall in his
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| lap so he ain’t even here
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| he pretends that…
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| Airplanes in the night sky like shooting stars
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| I could really use a wish right now wish right now wish right now
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| Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
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| I could really use a wish right now wish right now wish right now |