I Wish I Was A...

Let's take it back when I was ten

Life was make-believe, pretend

Had to knock to skate with my friends

I wished then that the state was my ends

When after-school cartoons held the tree

Fifteen, could see sex in the cinema

Forever wishing I was doing something similar

At eighteen, I let G affect me

But where's he now? What a criminal

I wish I would just stop wishing

'Cause I been wishing my life away

And when I was younger

It felt like a lifetime

But I don't care about halfway

I wish I could just stop wishing

'Cause time goes fast like a runway

But I shouldn't fake it

I just wanna make it

I wish I was a—

I wish I was a pop star

Wish I could see the future

I wish I had brown hair sometimes

To sit within the guidelines

I wish I was drama

So I could date Bella

Then I could drive fast cars like yours

And forget where all the clocks are

Oh, no, FOMO

Twenty-one, I live at home

On a different time zone

Wishing away

The world dropped me deep in the ocean

Got me losing my focus

Got me swimming for a pot of gold that I can't open

But still I keep hoping

Wishing on a dream that I've never seen in reality

Chuck the rope in

I can't even read my mind

Got so many thoughts

But I think it's time, yeah

I can't even press rewind

Maybe I been wishing my life away

(Ladies and gentlemen)

I wish I was a pop star

Wish I could see the future

I wish I had brown hair sometimes

To sit within the guidelines

I wish I was drama

So I could date Bella

Then I could drive fast cars like yours

And forget where all the clocks are

(Hey) Stop wishing your life away

'Cause I been wishing my life away

And when I was younger

It felt like a lifetime

But I don't care about halfway

Stop wishing your life away

'Cause time goes fast like a runway

But I shouldn't fake it

I just wanna make it

I wish I was a—

I wish I was a—

(You got a dream)

(You gotta protect it)

I wish I was a pop star

Wish I could see the future

I wish I had brown hair sometimes

To sit within the guidelines

I wish I was drama

So I could date Bella

Then I could drive fast cars like yours

And forget where all the clocks are