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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

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