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