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This article is about the song. For the album it appears in, see Take Me to Your Leader.


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Take Me to Your Leader is the title song and second track on Newsboys' sixth studio album, Take Me to Your Leader. It was one of only a few Newsboys tracks released as a physical single and later appeared in compilations Shine: The Hits, The Greatest Hits and The Ultimate Collection. It was written by Peter Furler and Steve Taylor. It appeared in the Christian music hits compilation album WOW Hits 1997.

Single Track Listing[]

  1. Take Me To Your Leader (2:54)
  2. Take Me To Your Leader (vocal space mix) (3:00)
  3. Shine (Tom Lord-Alge remix) (3:47)
  4. Dear Shame (3:49)

Lyrics[]

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 livin' boy
It's real, it's free, it's fun,
Let's Take 'Em To Our Leader's Son

Music video[]

The music video for this song features the band as astronauts exploring some alien planet, whose terrain is rocky and marked by strange flowers. A female extraterrestrial observes them in throughout the video and is implicitly evangelized by them.

Trivia[]

  • The sleeve insert for the album demonstrates a subtle shift in the chorus; earlier, the chorus goes, "Let's take 'em to our leader, son," while the last two instances are read, "Let's take 'em to our Leader's Son," obviously a reference to Jesus as the Son of God.
  • The line, "But McQueen [Isabelle] ain't" is a reference to race car driver Steve McQueen.

Scripture references[]

  • The lines "At the courtroom Joshua judges her\\Ruthlessly on account of Ruth walking\\out on him" is a humorous nod to the ordering of the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth in the Old Testament.










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