(Nanci Griffith)
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We're living in a time of inconvenience
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Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air
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Our city streets are filled with violence
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So we close our doors to the city
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And pretend that it's not there
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Here I go again
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Back out on these mean streets
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The evil seems to cling to the soles of my feet
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Cuz' I'm living in a time of inconvenience
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At an inconvenient time
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We're living in the age of communication
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Where the only voices heard have money in their hands
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Where greed has become a sophistication
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And if you ain't got money
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You ain't got nothin' in this land
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An' here I am one lonely woman
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On these mean streets
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Where the right to life man has become my enemy
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Cuz' I'm living in his time of inconvenience
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At an inconvenient time
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[Bridge:]
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I've turned my cheek
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As my history fades
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While the clock ticks away
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Any progress we've made
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I never thought
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I'd be ashamed to be human
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Afraid to say
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My time has seen it's day
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Cuz' I'm living in a time of inconvenience
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Living in a time of inconvenience
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Living in a time of inconvenience
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It's an inconvenient time
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This is the time of greed and power
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Where everyone needs to have someone to shove around
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Our children come to us for answers
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Listening for freedom but they don't know the sound
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And there they are, our children
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Dumped out in these mean streets
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The evil sweeps them up
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And brings them to their knees
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Cuz' they're living in our time of inconvenience
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They're living in the age of communication
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This is the time of greed and power
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This is the time that I wish was not mine
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Cuz' it's an inconvenient time
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(time, oh time)
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(it's an inconvenient time)
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Time Of Inconvenience
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Nanci Griffith |