MISSION OF LOVE

Mission Of Love

By Rick Clark (Crack In The Sky Music - SESAC) and Mark Marchetti (Mark Marchetti - BMI)

She’s on a mission

I must confess

She wants it all

And nothing less

She’s on a mission

She’s been blessed

And I’m drowning

In her stream of consciousness 

She’s on a mission

A mission of love

You better get get ready (now)

Cause here she comes

She’s knows exactly

Where she’s coming from

I don’t know

If she knows it or not

 She’s got me falling for whatever she’s got

She’s on a mission

A mission of love

(chorus)

Yeah, she’s on a mission

She’s going to heal my condition

Yeah, she’s on a mission of love

(verse break)

Oh, She ain’t asking for permission

Yeah, She’s got a dancer’s intuition

She knows the moves to make 

That make my cold heart tremble

And start to shake

She’s on a mission

A mission of love

(double chorus)

THE BAND

Rahsaan Barber - Saxes

Roland Barber - Trombone, Trumpet

Rick Clark - Lead and harmony vocals, Piano, Acoustic Guitar

Viktor Krauss - Electric Bass

Colin Linden - Electric Guitars

Brian Owings - Drums

Roger Wood - B3 organ

Sarina-Joi Crowe - Background Vocals

Wendy Moten - Background Vocals

Britt Savage - Background Vocals

Recorded at Blackbird Recording / Blackbird Academy in Berry Hill, TN,

Engineered by Mark Rubel

Vocals and Mixes at Rick Clark Productions, Columbia, TN

Mastered by Alex McCullough at True East Mastering - Nashville

Notes

“Mission Of Love” was co-written by my pal Mark Marchetti and me. It was one of our longer circuitous journeys of songwriting. The original version of “Mission Of Love” was written and recorded in Memphis on Beale Street at Memphis Sound Productions during the mid-80’s. The original song had the same musical form, but the lyrics were darker and more tongue-in-cheek. After I went into Blackbird to cut this latest version it became apparent to me that the lyrics needed to be more celebratory of a woman’s power. It just felt like that kind of rock song. Part of what led me down that road was how the chorus has such a lift. Mark and I both feel like we took “Mission Of Love” to a truer place with this new version. I love the female singers and Britt Savage really knocks it out of the park with he old-school rock’n’roll wailin’.