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My Election   leo genereux   06Feb2014

  

How deep are the dark waters of guilt

Into which I chose to dive?

How would it feel without the gasping

fear to stay alive?

If pain be the gauge for being alive

Then death be the gift for living

And if suffering purifies me of sin

Purity's as tainted as sinning.

God is the only Cause

and fear and pain are not of Him.

Why should I be in dreams of drowning

When His children all know how to swim?

Godless must have been my choice;

For I am cursed with self damnation

By believing my ego's condemning voice

I gladly stage my suffocation.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt,

For their cause was simply my mistake

From this dreadful dream I can choose escape.

It is mine, always mine. It is my election.

My state of mind at anytime, always my election.

My election.

In every single instant the choice is mine

For heavy shackles or liberation

I am empowered to choose each time

To defy my desperation.

When the murky waters inside begin to rise

It's time to leave my ballast behind

With a moment's pause from the sinking cause

I can choose the buoyant Mind.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt,

The little self that chose to drown

can lose the chains that drag him down.

It is mine, always mine. It is my election.

Misery, or to set myself free, always my election.

My election.

My election.

 

Inspired by A Course In Miracles, W-pII.284.(italicized);T-14.III.3.

Forgiveness Is   leo genereux   11Aug2016

Every grudge that I hold burns me cold,

A festering wound within me,

But I'm learning now, that is just how

My ego wants it to be.

Grievances grind in my mind,

Growing with cancerous zeal,

But all these bruises, my ego refuses

To let any one of them heal.

Givers of blame are doomed to remain

In the game of angry names and constant pain.

Forgiveness is the only gift to give.

The only gift to give is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the only gift to give.

The only gift to give forgiveness is.

Remembering every resentment

Every bad seed I've ever sown,

Each one archived, and carefully stored

In the jars of my memory zone.

They excuse my remaining in sadness,

Defending my right to feel bad.

But this is Self treason, absent of reason,

My ego is driving me mad.

Bitterness is the gift with tragic cost

I choose instead the gift that mends

All suffering and loss.

Forgiveness is the only gift to give.

The only gift to give is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the only gift to give.

The only gift to give forgiveness is.

Forgiveness is the only gift to give.

The only gift to give is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the only gift to give.

The only gift to give forgiveness is.

The only gift to give forgiveness is.

The only gift to give forgiveness is.

The only gift to give forgiveness is.

 

Inspired by A Course in Miracles W-pII. 297.

Free Of My Body    leo genereux   05Oct2015

 

The cold makes me shiver, the heat makes me gasp

My need for shelter is as real as my body.

Viruses kill, infections attack;

The threat of contagion as real as my body.

My lover left me, she's never coming back;

My anger and sadness, as real as my body.

How can I keep my sanity intact, when

Guilt and self loathing's as real as my body?

I've got to see beyond my body's eyes

To know its views are compromised

I've got to be aware of only what is true

Allowing illusions to disappear.

0h, free of my body.

0h, free of my body.

I made a gamble, I took a loss;

The bummer of losing, real as my body.

My best friend betrayed me, I copped the cost;

The sting of betrayal, real as my body.

With aging and illness flesh and bone succumb

To painful sensations, as real as the body.

When the grim reaper rumbles the final summoning,

Will I be ready to let go this body?

The world I see so filled with pain

Reflects my choice to be insane.

I've got to be aware of only what is true

Allowing illusions (to) disappear.

0h, free of my body

0h, free of my body.

So sure is my ego of this time and place,

A story so tragic, entrapped in a body.

But if I were to let go the madness I embrace

Beyond this strange magic, I'm free of my body.

Dark dreams are ending, dispelled by the light

in this miracle moment, free of my body.

Gone are the nightmares, gone is my plight

With my spirit to guide me free of my body.

Seeing beyond my ego's eyes

I know that its views were based on lies

Being aware of only what is true

Allowing all fears to disappear.

0h, free of my body

0h, free of my body.

 

Inspired by A Course in Miracles.

 

Nothing But The Truth   leo genereux   30Sept2015

 

Searching for completion in a world so contrary

Each road I take leads to despair

Every passing stranger looks so unhappy

Sadly certain life's unfair.

'Seek, but do not find'

Each separate way is marked with signs,

All my striving seems to be so inclined

How loud and clear do my secret fears remind me;

Seek, but do not find

Seek, but do not find.

With each gaining of what I sought

Each winning battle that I fought

Every feeling that I bought fades and dies

Again I begin to search for more

Again I begin my private war

Pushing and shoving everyone aside.

Seek, but do not find

Each separate way is marked with signs

How can my hopes and dreams be so unkind

Goals are lost in the lies they hide behind

Seek, but do not find

Seek, but do not find.

My need to be greedy, my dark nightmares

The merciless world so filled with fear

The space that separates you and I;

It's all nothing but an ancient lie.

Seek, but do not find

Each separate way is marked with signs,

All my cunning plans are undermined

Disappointment stings me every time

Seek, but do not find

Seek, but do not find.

Finally I'm seeing the cause of my being

Bereft of any sense of home

Everyone is needed for any one's completion

Salvation leaves no one alone.

The journey ends where it began,

In remembering what we always knew;

God's Holy Son is what we all are,

In need of nothing, nothing but the truth.

In need of nothing, nothing but the truth

In need of nothing, nothing but the truth

In need of nothing, nothing but the truth

In need of nothing, nothing but the truth.

Inspired by A Course in Miracles  T- 31.IV; W-pI.71.

Only Mind Asleep   leo genereux   12Mar2017

  

Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogieman

Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogieman.

What is this thing that feels unsafe

While lying safe in bed?

Paralyzed by the fear it feels

Trapped in its mind-made dread.

Unable to move to save itself

Pondering its terrible fate

Death seems its only escape

Worse would be to awake.

Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogieman

Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogieman.

.

This could not be just a dream

Horror so dreadfully real

Soaked with sweat and panicking

Filled with feelings that feel.

Only in the mind asleep

Dreams are born of fear unreal

Only mind asleep can dream

The real world's not what it seems.

Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogieman

Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogieman.

A gentle Voice I begin to hear

Beyond this dark experience

Assures me clearly I am safe

Beyond my self-made trance.

My distress is just my ego's

Best attempts to horrify,

The little thing I thought was me

While dreaming up a separate 'I'.

Within the Knowing I remain

Blissfully whole and awake

The thing so filled with all that fear;

Just a fragmented dreamer's miss take.

Only in the mind asleep

Dreams are born of fear unreal

Only mind asleep can dream

The real world's not what it seems.

Only mind asleep

Only mind asleep

Only mind asleep

Only mind asleep.

 

Inspired by A Course in Miracles. W-pI.167.

Ruler Of The Universe   leo genereux   21May2017

 

My Self is ruler of the universe

I am responsible for what I see

I choose the feelings I experience

And I decide upon the goal I would achieve

And everything that seems to happen to me

I've asked for and I receive as I have asked.

 

You are the Self Whom You created Son

Creating like Yourself and One with You

My Self, which rules the universe is but

Your Will in perfect union with my own

Which can but offer glad assent to yours

That it may be extended to Itself

That is may be extended to itself.

 

My Self is ruler of the universe

I am responsible for what I see

I choose the feelings I experience

And I decide upon the goal I would achieve

And everything that seems to happen to me

I've asked for and I receive as I have asked.

 

You are the Self Whom You created Son

Creating like Yourself and One with You

My Self, which rules the universe is but

Your Will in perfect union with my own

Which can but offer glad assent to yours

That it may be extended to Itself

That is may be extended to itself.

My Self Is ruler of the universe

My Self Is ruler of the universe

My Self Is ruler of the universe

My Self Is ruler of the universe.

All lyrics taken from A Course in Miracles: T-21.II.2:3-5; W-pII.253:2.

Know This Need Not Be       leo genereux  26May2020

Sadness sighs and drearily drags
Your aching feet across the day
Making sure anyone around
Can taste its bitter sound.

Sadness is the place you dwell
When seeing through ego's eyes
A dismal tale you tell in jail
Where heartbreak's no surprise.

Know,  know this need not be. 
When sadness drags you down to hell 
Know this need not be.

Know,  know this need not be 
If sadness is the place you dwell
Know this need not be.

When sadness heaves its bag of needs
Upon your weary mind
From agony you'll not be freed
For depression is your wine.

When sadness is the space you waste
Across the dark divide
Sickness baits and pain negates
All hope that would survive.

Know, know this need not be  
When sadness heaves its bag of needs
Know this need not be.

 

Know, know this need not be  
When sadness is the space you waste
Know this need not be.

Self-imposed your sadness rose
To substitute for peace
But beyond the cause of all your wars
Awaits your glad release.
 
Sadness will sigh and drearily drag
Your aching feet across the day
Until you  choose to lose the blues
And walk the other way. 

Know, know this need not be. 
Self-imposed your sadness rose 
Know this need not be.

Know, know this need not be 
When sighs and drearily drags
Know this need not be.

Sadness sighs 
Sadness sighs
Until you shift your gaze to a happy phase
And wave sadness goodbye, that's right.

Know, know this need not be  
When sadness is the game you play 
know this need not be.

Know, know this need not be
When you finally choose to lose the  blues
This song can set you free.           

Inspired by A Course in Miracles,  T-4.IV, W-p1.100

Stolen From Madness   leo genereux   27Dec2015

With a moment's pause I can save myself

From the sick appeal of fear

Triggered by the invisible drive

To believe my own nightmare.

With a deep breath stolen from madness

I close my eyes and go within

Where I can choose again

Yes I can choose again.

To let go of my littleness,

To let go of my foolish pride

To let go of the tragic notion I've got something to hide.

To let go of my sadness

To let go of my distress

Surrendering to the moment stolen from madness

Surrendering to the moment stolen from madness.

Stolen from madness  

Stolen from madness

Stolen from madness.

Shifting my perception inward

The world is turned around

The terror of attack replaced

By the inner peace I've found.

The world is what the perceiver

Perceives the world to be

Letting go of my choice for terror

Ends its tyranny.

Letting go of all bitterness

Letting go of the need to hate

Letting go of the loaded notion I'm a victim of fate.

Letting go of all weakness

Rendering harmless all offense

Surrendering to the moment stolen from madness

Surrendering to the moment stolen from madness.

Stolen from madness

Stolen from madness

Stolen from madness.

Letting go my hysteria

Letting go of my greed to achieve

Questioning the value

Of the world view I believe.

Dropping out of the mindless

Insane drive for happiness

Surrendering to the moment stolen from madness

Surrendering to the moment stolen from madness.

Stolen from madness

Stolen from madness

Stolen from madness.

 

Lyrics inspired by A Course in Miracles.

The Frightened Mouse   leo genereux   03Mar2017

  

What merely is needs no defense

The truth of innocence proclaims

Only illusions need defending

Because they are insane.

 

I believed in sin at great expense

I built a wall at heavy cost

Sin was carved out of my peace

With imagined fears and phantom force.

 

How weak is fear. How meaningless

Only the fearful can be afraid

Can a frightened mouse attack the universe?

The laughable scenario of the self-made

The sad scenario of the self-made.

 

Behold the frightened mouse

Oh, the frightened mouse!

Believing in my little self

I was the frightened mouse.

Believing that I made myself

Formed my bitter fantasy;

Self condemning for the sin

Of choosing what could never be.

 

Unbearable existence of a mouse

Plagued my weary mind

This cautiously creeping little mouse

Feeling threatened all the time

Feeling threatened all the time.

 

Behold the frightened mouse

Oh, the frightened mouse!

Believing in my little self

I was the frightened mouse.

 

Feeling wasted and alone

The mouse had reached its end

My wish to be a separate 'me'

Was oh so bitterly mistaken!

 

Within me, though, there is a Force

I no longer could deny

By forgiving the universe-attacking mouse

I could see the Force is I.

I can see Love's strength is mine.

Oh the frightened mouse, oh the frightened mouse!

By believing in my little self, I was the frightened mouse

Oh the frightened mouse, oh the frightened mouse!

By believing in my little self, I was the frightened mouse.

Inspired by A Course in Miracles. T-22.V.

Where Will We Go?   leo genereux   04Jan2020


Where?

Where will we go?
When there's no place left to go,
When there's no place left to go?


Look at the moon
Does it speak for you tonight?
Where will we go?  

Where will we go? 

Where will we go?

Why?

Why are we here?
In a world where conflict reigns
Filled with bitterness and pain?


Within our mind
Only there can we find
The peace that would heal
The ache  that we feel

Where will we go?'

All that we hear

All that we see
All we believe to be real
All that repels us and

All that appeals
Swirling ships made to conceal
Our wish to be separate from love.

Now,  

Within the stillness of the light
There's a voice  that speaks to me
Beyond my tossed identity.


It tells of the Son
Forever safe and healed and whole
Here is our being,

Here is our heart,

Here is our soul.

Now,   

As illusions disappear
We are Instantly aware
Of the one Self we all  share


From deep within. 
Perfect love is beckoning
It's the final frontier
Where there's no where to go:
We are already there.

All that we hear 

All that we see
All we believe to be real
All that repels us and

All that appeals
Swirling ships made to conceal
Our wish to be separate from love.

All that we hear

All that we see
All we believe to be real
All that enslaves us and

All that intrigues
Magic ships made to appease
Our wish to be separate from love.

    

All that we hear

All that we see
All we believe to be real
All that repels us and

All that appeals
Swirling ships made to conceal
Our wish to be separate from love.

 

Inspired by A Course in Miracles. T-13.VII; W-pll.292.

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