Let’s pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen Let’s pretend things would’ve been no different Pretend people procrastinated had no motivation Pretend he just made excuses that was so paper thin
They could blow away wit the wind, Marshall you never gone make it Makes no sense to play the game it ain’t no way that’ll you win Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
And it wasn’t time to move in school no changin' again He wasn’t socially awakard and just strange as a kid He had a father and his mother wasn’t crazy as sh** And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums, he just lazy as sh**
F**k a talent show in the gymnasium b**ch You won’t amount to sh** quit day dreamin' kid You need to get ya cranium check You thinkin' like an alien, it just ain’t realistic
Now pretend they ain’t just make him angry with this sh** And there was no one he could even aim when he’s p**sed with And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it To the Rap Olympics, left to his plane and he missed it
He’s gonna have a hard time explainin' to Haley and Laney These food stamps and WIC sh**, cause he neverrisked sh** He hoped and he wished it, but it didn’t fall in his lap So he ain’t even hear it he pretends that