Nanci Griffith - Time Of Inconvenience lyrics

(Nanci Griffith)

We're living in a time of inconvenience

Compassion fails me with this meaness in the air

Our city streets are filled with violence

So we close the doors to the anger

And pretend that it's not there

Here I go again

Back out on these mean streets

The eveil seems to cling to the soles of my feet

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

But, 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 truned m,y cheek

As my history fades

As 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 its day

But I'm living in a time of inconvenience

At an inconvenient time

We're living in the age of greed and power

Where everyone seems to need someone to shove around

Our children come to us for answers

Listening for freedom but they din'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

They're living in our time of inconvenience

They're living in our age of communication

They're lost in a time of greed and power

They're living in a time

That I wish was not mine

It's an inconvenient time

(time, oh time)

(it's an inconvenient time)