Airplanes

## Single by B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams

"**Airplanes**" is a song by B.o.B, featuring vocals from Hayley Williams. The song was released in April 2010, as the third single from his debut studio album, *B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray*. A sequel to the song, titled "Airplanes, Part II", has two new verses by B.o.B and Eminem and features vocals by Hayley Williams.

## Background

The accompanying music video was directed by Hiro Murai and premiered on iTunes on June 15, 2010.

A version with Lupe Fiasco was leaked online, which Jim Jonsin addressed to MTV News, "I was actually working on a session in Chung King [Studios], and [Atlantic Records chairman] Craig Kallman called me during that session with that particular track, to work on it for Lupe Fiasco. I told Craig, 'I like the song a lot. It's a smash and could be somebody's single. But it's not Lupe's record. I need this record for B.o.B. Please give this record to B.o.B.' I guess they went through whoever they went through, convinced whoever they needed to, and it got to B.o.B."

## Lyrics

* Airplanes
* Airplanes, Part II

**Lyrics**
[Intro: 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

[Verse 1: B.o.B]

Yeah, I could use a dream or a genie or a wish

To go back to a place much simpler than this

'Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin'

And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion

And all the pandemonium and all the madness

There comes a time where you fade to the blackness

And when you starin' at that phone in your lap

And you hopin' but them people never call you back

But that's just how the story unfolds

You get another hand soon after you fold

And when your plans unravel in the sand

What would you wish for if you had one chance?

So airplane, airplane, sorry I'm late

I'm on my way, so don't close that gate

If I don't make that, then I'll switch my flight

And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night

[Chorus: Hayley Williams, *B.o.B*, **Both**]

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**

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**

[Verse 2: B.o.B]

Yeah, yeah, somebody take me back to the days

Before this was a job, before I got paid

Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank

Yeah, back when I was tryna get a tip at Subway

And back when I was rappin' for the hell of it

But nowadays we rappin' to stay relevant

I'm guessin' that if we can make some wishes out of airplanes

Then maybe, oh maybe, I'll go back to the days

Before the politics that we call the rap game

And back when ain't nobody listened to my mixtape

And back before I tried to cover up my slang

But this is for Decatur—what's up, Bobby Ray?

So can I get a wish to end the politics?

And get back to the music that started this shit?

So here I stand and then again I say

I'm hopin' we can make some wishes out of airplanes

[Chorus: Hayley Williams, *B.o.B*, **Both**]

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**

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**

[Outro: B.o.B, *Hayley Williams*]

I could really use a wish right now (*Woah-oh-oh-oh*)

I, I, I could really use a wish right now (*Mmm-mm-mm-mm*)

Like, like, like shooting stars (*Ahh-ah-ah-ah*)

I, I, I could really use a wish right now (*Ah-ah-ah-ah*)

A wish, a wish right now

**Lyrics**
[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]

Dreaming… of falling

Dreaming… of falling

[Verse 1: B.o.B]

Yeah, let's pretend like it's '98

Like I'm eatin' lunch off of Styrofoam trays

Tryin' to 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

And when my beat drops everybody goes insane

Okay, and everybody know my name (Bob)

And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sang

Oh yeah, and I just dropped my new album

On the first week I did 500 thousand

Gold in the spring, and diamond in the fall

And then a world tour just to top it all off

And let's pretend like they call me the greatest

Sellin' out arenas with big-ass stages

And everybody loved me and no one ever hated

Let's try to use imagination

[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

[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 (Yeah)

Now, let's pretend like it was all good (Good)

Like I didn't live starin' in the 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 (Three 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]

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

[Bridge: B.o.B., *Eminem*]

And it seems like yesterday it was just a dream

But those days are gone

They're just memories

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 away 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 thinking 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 explaining 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