Released on 21 April 2023 – through Plankton Records and on digital platforms worldwide

Lyric video by Josh Aarons @joshaarons_

That goes for anybody – Eric Leroy Wilson (news release) is available to download in PDF format

That Goes for Anybody is a combination of poetry from a mystic and a throwback 90’s hip hop track, with echoes of De La Soul. The song has the smell of vinyl stacks and the feel of a message from the past. Written and performed by spoken word poet Eric Leroy Wilson, That Goes for Anybody offers wisdom about the power and liberation of inner awareness.

Malibu-based Wilson wrote the lyrics, and the beats were produced by MOBO award winning UK producer, Tony Bean. “This track comes through the lens of the ancient wisdom known as ‘the beatitudes’,” says Eric, “the resonance of these words play out in how we show up in the world, how we see ourselves and each other. It doesn’t just mean an elect elite has cracked some kind of code to get it together, it’s for anybody.”

Bio

Eric Leroy Wilson serves as the Lead Pastor for University Church of Christ in Malibu. Wilson is a certified Spiritual Director, Executive Coach and is a religion blogger. He is an award-winning playwright and theatrical director. His work has been published and performed around the country including the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Eric is a spoken word artist with the NINE BEATS Collective, an international group of musicians and thought leaders reimagining the teachings of Jesus for a new generation. Wilson’s is the author the book, Faith: The First Seven Lessons.

Lyrics

That goes for anybody
Eric Leroy Wilson ft. NINE BEATS Collective

Veil lifted.
Situation has shifted.
Squinting, needing time to get your inner eye adjusted
to the light that exposes how massive and expansive you truly can be.
Duped into believing the outer shell is your inner reality and not merely the vehicle to get you around until you have learned how to fly.

Step back.
Cognitive distance.
All of a sudden the you that was you becomes the you who is the witness
To all that rises and falls and circumnavigates through your conscious.
Thoughts and feelings, values and desires of the will, all the passions and distractions that cause all the reaction
Now you are finally able to respond.

That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
Look at you now.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.

Waking up.
coming to the conclusion,
You are more than your thoughts and your feelings.
You are something wider, bigger, stronger, deeper,
Ample, courageous, with enthusiasm contagious,
You are that mountain that moves with the smallest seed of faith.
You are a being deeply rooted in the ground of all being that exists today.
You are the flash of lightning,
You are the rotation of the moons,
The passing of cumulous clouds and the rumble of the 808 boom
From a track played on a street corner in 1988 that rocks
As three b-boys did back spins on one flattened piece of cardboard box.

You are the cup that holds the hope that never is in delay
The spinning of the hoop the shaman made spin.
The sweat from Parker’s brow as he began to send
Ancient wails from his horn was propelled by your say.
You are the breathe of the rebellious, demanding freedom in their day.

That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
Look at you now.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.

All this from awakening the eye of your inner witness.
Spiritual fitness, life’s deep and dire business of
Finding out the scope and breath of “I am”.

Emancipation. The soul’s liberation.
Making sense of the currency and coin of why we are here.
Here in this time and in this place
Here in the circumstances we find ourselves face,
Here where the melody breaks,
And the rhythms stutter steps in a cadence of co-creation.
Here where we need your full realization more than ever before.
We will accept you for who you are,
But we need you to be so much more:
You the titan, you the warrior poet, prophet, priest and king,
You the pyramid, made with sacred ancient technology!
That just doesn’t go for you but that goes for anybody.

That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
Look at you now.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
Look at you now.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.
That goes for anybody.
That goes, that goes, that goes for anybody.

© 2023 Lifewords / Plankton Records
℗ 2023 Lifewords / Plankton Records
Lyrics – Eric Leroy Wilson
Music – Tony Bean
Publishing – Copyright control