Take Me To Your Leader
Song Meaning
Newsboys tell this one through two unconnected, almost cartoonish character sketches — a shoplifter in a courtroom, a man cycling through incense and supplements looking for something that works — before both stories land on the identical request: 'take me to your leader.' The phrase borrows its sci-fi cliché on purpose, treating an encounter with genuine faith as something as startling and outside normal categories as meeting an alien would be.
Neither character gets a tidy conversion moment; both simply admit 'I don't know why you care, I don't know what's out there' before asking to be pointed toward whoever's actually responsible for the joy they've noticed in someone else. John 14:6's claim that no one comes to the Father except through Jesus sits quietly behind the request itself — 'leader' isn't a vague spiritual guide, it's a specific person being pointed to. The closing verse flips the request outward — 'let's take 'em to our leader's son' — turning the two characters' individual searches into an instruction for whoever's listening to do the same pointing for someone else.
Isabelle is a belly dancer
With a kleptomaniac's restraint
Tried stealing Helena's hand basket,
Made a fast getaway,
But McQueen she ain't
At the courtroom Joshua judges her
Ruthlessly on account of Ruth walking
Out on him
In the Big House Isabelle is a-telling all
To the chaplain who's become her friend
She says: I don't know why you care
I don't know what's out there
I don't know where or how
Just take me to your leader now
Take me to your leader now
Justin is adjustin' to the odor from
Theodore's Evergreen Incense
But aroma therapy don't make him any
Younger than Oliver's All Liver Supplements
His late mate Merrilee merrily said
Immortality can't be bought in a jar
This just in: Justin's had enough of cure-
Alls, gonna quiz the neighbor kid with the
Fish on his car
He says: I don't know why you care
I don't know what's out there
I don't know how it's done
Just take me to your leader, son
I see you've got the joy
I've seen you live it, boy
It's real, it's free, it's fun,
So take me to your leader , son
They don't know why we care
They don't know what's out there
They don't know how it's done
Let's Take 'Em To Our Leader's Son
They see we've got the joy
They see us live it, oi
It's real, it's free, it's fun,
Let's Take 'Em To Our Leader's Son