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Faith & Spiritual Searching

Where Is Jesus When You Need 'Em

A spiritually searching song that asks where divine guidance can be found when the world feels divided and overwhelmed. Rather than offering an easy answer, it suggests that the spiritual truths we seek may already be visible in acts of love, compassion, and the courage to help one another.

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Primary moodSpiritually Searching
Additional moodsReflective · Urgent · Hopeful
Written byGary Mitchell Wollman
Catalog IDSS-001

“Where Is Jesus When You Need ’Em?” begins with a question that feels both spiritual and deeply human: where do we turn when the world seems to have lost its direction? Moving across mountains, sacred traditions, religious leaders, and figures such as Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Moses, and Muhammad, the song searches widely for the guidance humanity appears to need.

Yet its answer is ultimately simple and demanding: the divine cannot be found through words or belief alone. It becomes visible through love.

The song reflects on a world in which ordinary people are too often treated as tools, suffering is allowed to deepen, and humanity continues sailing through uncertain waters without learning the lessons of its past. Spiritual searching therefore becomes more than a private question of faith—it becomes a moral responsibility. If people fall too far into despair, confusion, or hardship, the answer is not to abandon them. We must be willing to lower a rope and help them find their way back.

At the heart of the song is the conviction that love and compassion are not merely ideals associated with faith; they are how faith is recognized and lived. The presence we seek may already be among us whenever someone chooses empathy over indifference, service over self-interest, and connection over division.

Provocative in title but compassionate in purpose, “Where Is Jesus When You Need ’Em?” asks listeners to look beyond doctrine and discover spiritual truth in what we do for one another. Its message is both an invitation and a challenge: if we want to see the sacred in the world, we must first be willing to embody its love.

Creative placement

Made to meet
the right story.

For scenes where spiritual doubt gives way to compassion, service, and moral resolve.

Faith-based drama

A characterful placement for stories exploring faith, spiritual searching, compassion.

Humanitarian documentary

A resonant thematic frame for documentary storytelling rooted in faith, spiritual searching, compassion.

Social-impact campaign

A purposeful musical voice for a campaign built around faith, spiritual searching, compassion.

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Complete lyrics presented from Gary Wollman’s authoritative lyric sheet.

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VERSEI’ve prayed before mountainsThrown pennies in fountainsFinally I found I couldn't find more

Shamen shepherds priestsImams rabbis sheepSome adore the lightOthers the light they ignore

INSTRUMENTAL

BRIDGEWe descend we lose sight ofWho’s the true martyrTime passes onThe lesson only gets harder to learn

Can’t extricate ourselvesWithout falling even fartherWho’ll be left at long lastTo see to it we don’t burn?

CHORUSWhere Is Jesus when You need ‘em?You must love or you won’t see him

VERSEDays pass on like eonsWe remain startlingly weakThe masses are treatedLike tools or mere peonsClearly we’re sailing on uncharted seas

BRIDGEOne might look to Gandhi or MartinSimply stated as a way of startin’You can’t lose lovin’ Moses or MohammadOr in fact goin’ on back to the garden

CHORUSWhere Is Jesus when you need ‘em?You must love or you won’t see him

BRIDGEPeople have of habit diggin’ downThe rabbit hole too deepStill we must throw down a rope for thoseWho have stumbled too steep

CHORUSWhere Is Jesus when you need ‘em?You must love or you won’t see him

You just can’t say you wanna be ‘em

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Composition documentationOn file · SRu 1-515-947

Songwriter informationVerified

Preferred masterPreferred WAV on file

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