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 and just 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 Cos 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 don't have money You've got nothing in this land But here I am only lonely woman On these mean streets Where a right to life, man has become my enemy Cos I'm living in a time of inconvenience At an inconvenient time I've turned my 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 it's day Yes 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 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 Cos they're living in our time of inconvenience Living in our age of communcation Lost in at time of greed and power There living in a time That I wish was not mine It's an inconvenient time