ACIMRIDE Lyrics
I Loose The World leo genereux 17Mar2017
The real cost to me is kept concealed
Behind my ego's shields it's hidden,
This idol worshiping self identity
Demands that freedom be forbidden.
The present alone offers a safe home
From the ravaging storms of time,
Only in this moment now can I undo
Ideas that savage my weary mind.
I loose the world from all I thought it was
I loose the world from all I thought it was.*
The game of lonely minds can be but sustained
By a world where war and sorrow reign,
The untrained mind is suffering all the time
Beliefs keep it bound in heavy chains.
For an instant I am free from my ego's jail
By allowing peace of mind to prevail
And every angry shove becomes a call for love
As vision dissolves all misperceptions.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.*
The entire universe of time and space
Was by the lie of separation made
So that ego mind could find a place to hide
From the One it thinks it betrayed.
Its unreality is simply proven by,
The eternal innocence of the Son,
Truth is untouched by hallucination,
Beyond our illusions we are all One.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.*
If I let go of every thought of suffering,
The world can be released of pain,
By denying the denial of truth I could now
Feel Love's embrace forever unchanged.
For the world I view is a mere projection;
A reflection of unclaimed misery
My choice to place my faith in separation
Was the causeless cause of the woeful world I see.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
Inspired by A Course in Miracles. *W-pI.132.
In A Grain Of Sand leo genereux 12Apr2016
Deserts, jungles, mountains and plains
Through distant cities and ancient ruins
The seeker of truth searched in vain
Hoping to find the noblest of truths.
And only on his final day
The old man finally saw the light
It came so simply in a dream
Where to find the meaning of life;
Where to find the meaning of life.
It's in a grain of sand, in a drop of rain
In the scent of lavender, walking down a country lane.
In an ancient tree, in a melody
In a speck of dust, in each and every one of us.
In a tiny seed, In a ray of sunlight
In the distant stars shining down every night.
In a giant whale, in a tiny fly
In a wagging tail, in every passerby.
In a candle's light, in a flake of snow
in the stillness of the night just before the morning's glow.
In the happy smile of a waking child
Realizing it was just a bad dream all the while.
Na-na-na-na-na na-na na-na na-na-na (2X)
If you really wanna know the truth,
It's in a grain of sand.
Thankful knowing love will mend
Each little gap that lies between
The many pieces of the son.
So truth be known that we are one.
Life's meaning is nowhere but
Within each dreamer's seeking heart
Awaiting to awaken from
The seeming world of separate parts;
The dream of separate parts.
In a lucky charm, in a wishing well
In a lover's arms, in a ringing bell
In a waving flag, in a toothless hag
In the rising moon red by the fires of June.
In a crowded house, in a squeaking mouse
In a broken toy, in a naughty boy
In the whistling wind, in the restless clouds
Nowhere else could meaning be
But in the here and now.
The meaning of everything,
Is in a grain of sand.
Inspired A Course in Miracles. T-28.IV.9:4.
Keeper of Kindness leo genereux 18Oct2020
Dawn reaches the garden covered with dew
Splashes of color begin to peek through
The kind garden keeper smiles as she hums
Ancient yet ever so young.
She sends away vermin, she tends to the weeds
The sun and the showers are all that she needs
For the world she resides in, a grateful tear falls
Her kindness encompassing all.
The life of the keeper flows clear like a stream
By sharing her love all the world is redeemed
She learned by forgiving there's nothing to forgive
Kindness is all she can give.
Keeper, keeper of kindness, kindness
Keeper, keeper of kindness, kindness
Kindness.
With the light that's within her guiding the way
All of her labors feel more like play
Each moment's a pleasure, each day's a delight
Rejoicing from morning 'til night.
The keeper hums gently a sweet melody
The garden she's keeping responds lovingly
Through the eyes of the keeper but beauty is seen
A universe grows from her dream.
And we all begin humming along with her tune
Soaring above all our hardships and gloom
And soon all creation is joyous again
Finding the kindness within.
Keeper, keeper of kindness, kindness
Keeper, keeper of kindness, kindness
Kindness.
As the sun now is setting the keeper recalls
A day filled with blessings for everyone all
In each sparkling moment the world was redone,
Ancient yet ever so young.
Keeper, keeper of kindness, kindness
Keeper, keeper of kindness, kindness
Kindness.
Keeper, keeper of kindness, ancient yet every so young
Keeper, keeper of kindness, ancient yet every so young
Keeper, keeper of kindness, ancient yet every so young.
Inspired by the teaching in A Course in Miracles and Kw
Poverty leo genereux 06Sept2017
My appetite for more and more eats away at me
My hidden desperation blurs everything I see
All this trying to appease my never ending needs
Leaves me drowning in the ocean of my greed
This hungry ghost can't get a decent feed.
Poverty, Poverty
Despite the way it looks it's poverty
Poverty, Poverty
My little self is stuck in poverty.
Sometimes I'll see a homeless man roughin' it out on the street
With shopping bags filled with rags, and not enough to eat.
Who is this dude in his holy shoes
With tears carved on his face?
Just another desperado much like me,
The difference is I hide my poverty.
Poverty, I'm dragging
Poverty, life's sagging
Never mind the shine, it's poverty
Poverty, wearing Gucci
Poverty, driving Ferrari
My riches itch like poverty.
The cloud of incompletion, the haze of emptiness
The feeling of depletion, the taste of bitterness
Our choice for separation was but our one mistake
If anybody loses everybody aches
We've got to share it all for our own sake.
Poverty, Poverty,
If anyone's in need it's poverty
Poverty, Poverty,
Unless we share it all
it's poverty
Poverty, poverty
Our choice for love can end all poverty
Poverty, poverty
One for all and all for one is the only way to be
Sharing ends the curse of poverty.
Lyrics inspired by A Course In Miracles. Preface-"What Is Says";
T-15.XI.5; T-29.VII.2-4.
The Hero Of My Play leo genereux 10Mar2015
Most every morning wears a dismal frown
I'm sure the day is gonna bring be down
I drag my feet and wear my thorny crown
On the rocky road of life....in the play I call, 'My Life'.
Sickness greets me with a sallow face
Pain is my partner in the time I waste
And pleasure leaves me with a bitter taste
Where's the hero of my play
Who can chase all these villains away?
Every day
I get another chance
To wake myself
From the ego trance
And be the hero of my play, the hero of my play
I need to wake him up today, the hero of my play.
Hero of my play
Hero of my play.
Oh, the hardship seems to cut so deep!
Nightmares consume the dreamers in their sleep
Hopelessly trapped within the fear they reap
Deadly dreams don't casually dance
While dreamers sleep walk in their trance.
If I don't wake before the story ends
I'll have to play the victim's part again
And blame the whole world for my suffering
How tragic are all the sleeping ones
Who imagine themselves as the victims.
Every day
I get another chance
To wake myself from the ego trance
And liberate the slave
From his chains of fear and hate
Rewriting this tragic play
Letting the Holy Spirit lead the way.
He's the hero of my play
Hero of my play
Hero of my play
Hero of my play.
Inspired by A Course in Miracles. W-pI.185; T-27.8.
Being Is Having leo genereux 25May2017
Sick and tired, worn and weak
Feeling trashed, looking bleak
Filled with hate, out of date,
Spiraling down and down.
In my frozen world, where I'm lost and alone
I desperately search for the warmth of a home
And all of my nights are spent in a daze
Pained and shivering, exhausted and crazed.
Where is there refuge for me
In the blackness of hostility?
Is there no escape from this dreadful place
Where shadows are all that I see?
When I'm aware of this nightmare
I realize life's not what it seems
Reality is beyond all fear
Fear is just my awful dream.
For Heaven waits here in my mind
Just need to focus on love all the time
The terror will cease by choosing release
From my dark fantasies that cover up peace.
Remembering the gift that I have
Is also the gift that I am
With all of my brothers joined with me
Sharing love eternally
All I need is everything, and everything is all I need
And what I have is what I am and I am everything.
Delusional magic that I chose for my tragic
Substitution for the Life that is mine
Has left me depleted, bereft, and defeated
Believing I am an impossible crime.
Healing the split in my mind
By leaving my mad dreams behind
Returning to love where fear is undone
And having and being are one.
All we need is everything, and everything is all we need
And what we have is what we are and we are everything.
Being is having, having is being
Suffering is dreaming waking from fear is love.
Being is having, having is being
Suffering is dreaming waking from fear is love.
Lyrics inspired by the teachings in A Course in Miracles.
This Sinking Ship leo genereux 09Feb2019
Do I have to hold on
To my belief in devils
That lurked in the minds of the saints long ago?
Am I too busy suffering
Each day in my aching body
With my belief in pain, the 'holy' migraine?
And this belief in danger
Keeps me from walking down the lane,
Where I'm sure there waits a stranger with a blade.
And this belief in poverty
Keeps me feeling dirt poor
Even though I've got the money, and the shiny new car.
Do I have to die to understand about living?
Do I have to become blind before I see the light?
Will I have to hang if I mutiny my curses?
I'm gonna bail out of this sinking ship
And swim into the light
Bail out of this sinking ship
And swim into the light.
And who am I to blame
When I feel lost and afraid?
And why do I dread the darkness
When the lights start to fade?
If the only real victims
Are the prey of their own beliefs
On the ancient ship of fear
Beware of many reefs.
The ancient ship of fear
Was just my strange idea
The pain and danger that I felt
Was to prove I'm really here
The ship that's sinking in the storm
Is just a fantasy
The light that's shining in my mind
Is the soul's reality.
I don't have to die
To understand about living.
I don't have to become blind
Before I see the light?
I don't have to hang
If I mutiny our curses
I'm gonna bail our of this sinking ship
And swim into the light.
Bail out of this sinking ship
And swim into the light.
Gotta bail out
Gotta bail out
Gotta bail out
Gotta bail out......
Lyrics inspired by the perennial wisdom that can be found in
A Course in Miracles.
Cut To The Bone leo genereux 16Sep2015
I ache, therefore I am.
My pain is mine alone.
Who in this world can deny
Feelings that cut to the bone?
I ache, therefore I am.
My pain is mine alone.
Who in this world can deny
Feelings that cut to the bone?
Cut to the bone, cut to the bone.
Sensations I feel are witnesses to
The proof that my body exists.
Pleasure and pain, are my offerings
On the altar of my human-ness.
But what if my feelings are part of a plan
I chose but refuse to recall;
A clever design to keep me blind
To the fact I exist not at all?
I ache, therefore I am.
My pain is mine alone.
Who in this world can deny
Feelings that cut to the bone?
I ache, therefore I am.
My pain is mine alone.
Who in this world can deny
Feelings that cut to the bone?
Cut to the bone, cut to the bone,
Cut to the bone
Apparent being in panic and pain
Pulse of the puppet is pounding like rain,
Deadly desire to play ego games,
Wreaking dismay for the sleeping.
But nothing ever was nor ever will be
Beyond the Oneness that is.
I need but abandon my make believe 'me',
Remembering that Being is painless.
If I ache, therefore I am
Believing my own scam
I'm hallucinating nightmares,
Forgetting what I truly am.
If I ache, therefore I am
Imagining that I'm damned
Avoiding the risk of salvation
With feelings that cut to the bone.
Cut to the bone, cut to the bone.
Cut to the bone, (2X)
Lyrics inspired by the teachings of A Course in Miracles.
Born In Me Today leo genereux 05Jun2016
Dreams of suffering, dreams of sin,
So real they feel to me.
Self-cursed by imagining
That I deserve such misery.
Dread surrounds my dreaming form
Stained by the blood of wars.
Armed with hatred to defend
A 'life' of loveless laws.
Beyond the guilt that seems to cause
The world as it appears,
Love awaits my choosing
To let go my love of fear.
But then I hear a voice so gentle
Comforting my troubled mind:
"Come with me, brother, come with me.
Leave all your maddening dreams behind".
Love is all, all is Love,
And Love is born in me today.
Love is all, all is Love.
Love is born in me today.
I was dreaming up a world of tears
Believing what could never be
But now all sadness disappears
As I welcome reality.
The weeper's curse could not contain
the Self that shares one name.
As the sleeper awakens from his night
Love is born again.
Then I hear a voice so gentle
comforting my troubled mind:
"Come with me, brother, come with me.
Leave all your maddening dreams behind".
.
Love is all, all is Love, and Love is born in me today.
Love is all, all is Love. Love is born in me today.
Love is born, Love is born.
Love is all, all is Love. Love is born in me today.
Love is born in me today. (3X)
In me today.
Inspired by A Course In Miracles. W-pII. 303.
Whisperer leo genereux 08Jun2019
Within my wailing mind the pain demands
That anger make another shocking stand
How dare the world disrupt my noble plans!
The war begins again.
The ego's voice is what I chose to hear
A lonely choice that colors my despair
Along the road that leads away from light
Into the jaws of night.
A bloody battle line
Defines my state of mind
Projected on the world I see.
And so madness looms
For the self that worships doom.
And every thought unkind
Is yelling all the time
When will these wretched rounds defer?.
Where can be found the quiet sound,
of the whisperer?
Whisperer, whisperer, whisperer, whisperer.
My sleeping mind descends into nightmares
Surrounded by the shadows that it wears.
A doleful moan declares there is no choice.
But there is another voice.
The book of every age
Has war upon every page
But mankind's no kinder than before
Is this deadly dream worth dying for?
Responsibility
Is waiting here for me.
To choose the love that I denied.
When if not now?
Who if not I whisperer?
Whisperer, whisperer, whisperer, whisperer.
To make a gentle world where kindness flows
To thrive within the will that it be so
A loving thought is how it all begins
The treasure's deep within.
Beyond my dismal schemes
Truth is not what it seems
The whisperer is asking why;
When if not now?
Who if not I?
Now is the only time
The choice for Life is mine
To live forever, never die.
When if not now?
Who if not I?
When if not now?
Who if not I whisperer?
Whisperer, whisperer
Whisperer, whisperer.
Listen closely you can hear,
The whisperer is whispering
Whispering that love is here
And we are safe forever and ever.
Listen closely you can hear,
The whisperer is whispering
Whispering that love is here,
And we are safe forever and ever...
Inspired by A Course in Miracles. T-25.III.
Shadow Walls leo genereux 10Jun2014
Filled with pain, body bloodstained another child is born
The mother weeps, relief and joy, a boy healthy and strong
The ritual of life again dangles from a string
Winter's faces are replaced by children born in Spring.
What is this gap between us?
Uncertainty and fear
Keeping us apart from love
Limiting what comes near.
I am not the only one
Feeling sad and lonely
No one seems to hear the muted calls
Coming from within the shadow walls.
Shadow walls
Shadow walls
Shadow walls.
Growing up the boy soon learns the rules he must obey
Sacrifice and suffering await him every day
Why is everything he wants just beyond his reach?
How bitter are the lessons that his shadow wall would teach!
What is this gap between us?
Uncertainty and fear
Keeping us apart from love
Limiting what comes near.
I am not the only one
Feeling sad and lonely
The little minds within their private stalls
Believing in their shadow walls.
Shadow walls
Shadow walls
Shadow walls
Young man in the mirror, his face no longer smiles
His conflicting schemes for happiness remain unreconciled
What is this thing of flesh and bone that searches aimlessly
How futile is its mindless chase; the human race to 'be'!
What is this gap between us?
Uncertainty and fear
Keeping us apart from love
Limiting what comes near.
I am not the only one
Feeling sad and lonely
No one seems to hear our muted calls
Coming from within the shadow walls.
This man can choose a different path, while shadows linger still
A happy dream to heal his heart, a joining with God's Will
If deep within he listens closely, he can hear Love's call
To shine away his shadow wish
And climb above his wall.
Make believe is the body
A wish to be enclosed
An ancient nightmare that we chose
But we can choose again.
Shadows fading , as the Son is rising tall
Above the shadow walls.
Above the shadow walls.
Shadow walls (12X).
Inspired by A Course in Miracles. T-26.I