Time Of Inconvenience Lyrics - Nanci Griffith

We're living in a time of inconvenience 

Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air 

Our city streets are filled with violence 

So we close our doors to the city 

And pretend that it's not there 

Here I go again back out on these mean streets 

The evil seems to cling to the soles of my feet 

'Cuz I'm living in a time of inconvenience 

At an inconvenient time 

We're living in the age of communication 

Where the only voices heard have money in their hands 

Where greed has become a sophistication 

And if you ain't got money, you ain't got nothin' in this land 

And here I am, one lonely woman on these mean streets 

Where the right to life man has become my enemy 

'Cuz I'm living in his time of inconvenience 

At an inconvenient time 

I've turned my cheek as my history fades 

While the clock ticks away any progress we've made 

I never thought I'd be ashamed to be human 

Afraid to say, my time has seen it's day 

'Cuz I'm living in a time of inconvenience 

Living in a time of inconvenience 

Living in a time of inconvenience 

It's an inconvenient time 

This is the time of greed and power 

Where everyone needs to have someone to shove around 

Our children come to us for answers 

Listening for freedom but they don't know the sound 

And there they are, our children 

Dumped out in these mean streets 

The evil sweeps them up 

And brings them to their knees 

'Cuz they're living in our time of inconvenience 

They're living in the age of communication 

This is the time of greed and power 

This is the time that I wish was not mine 

'Cuz it's an inconvenient time 

Time, oh time, it's an inconvenient time