Whether or not you allow to see
you're playing the game if you want to achieve 
a rat in a cage that begs for release or a rat on display the ego it feeds, 
it taps and plays for praise and cheese
but trapped away without the keys
tragic array of people in need, attract the praise ignore the bleed, 
watch it grow tall as it stands like a giant
obelisk armor with pain that's defiant
we build the walls that then come to define  
not reliant on giving our head peace of mind 
it's obvious that when you build up the rind
the fruit inside is made harder to shine, 
it mutes the light when within there's a fight, 
and truth ignites like a flame in the night
but you move with time and it's harder to find, 
the use what happens when you're not align, 
cruise through life thinking everything's fine
but cue the lights when you choose to be blind, 
you decide what you do with the mind 
the clues in the altitude that you climb 
you lose when you fall in tune with the chime 
the mood and the attitude declines 
it's rudimentary to see how we're truly meant to be, 
heading right to demise 
the movies and cutie pies, we don't grow to be true to size and eventually euthanized. 

I'm tryna step out the box if I struggle with mine then I'm picking the lock, 
a toxic show the rot exposed the nonsense thickens in plot
there's no delay we keep playing 
feel like Truman in Seahaven 
it's been looming I feel laden 
craving feel my body's been aching
so I'm breaking it off
separate from all the fake and the gloss
amputation but not taking the gauze 
no mistaking I'm not feeding your cause
hesitation can't be cheap with a cost
preservation what we need to acknowledge 
meditation doesn't thieve out your wallet, 
never patient feed the week till they vomit 
medication at the peak of the tallest
elevation till you sink to the bottom 
segregation has you linked in a column 
degradation make a weep and you're falling 
step in line 
what you think what you say will be analyzed 
don't just think and relay got a set of eyes 
with some teeth and a brain 
when you're fed with lies then you begin the same. 
Cycle rinse and repeat is the game
strife will leave you defeated in shame 
tough to stomach like a child in pain 
but rough the plummet no desire to change
life reduced to a singular spot
speck of existence to witness the shot
blessed to vent this I'm standing with ease
a test invented to hand you the keys.

Ado is a songwriter, producer and rapper out of Dayton, Ohio with a Bosnian/Syrian background, making music that's unique discussing social issues as well as internal, spiritual struggle, bringing a variety of flows and energy with each song.