Our city streets are filled with violence
Where the only voices heard have money in their hands

Dumped out in these mean streets

Where everyone needs to have someone to shove around
So we close our doors to the city
Where the right to life man has become my enemy
Our children come to us for answers
And brings them to their knees
While the clock ticks away any progress we've made

At an inconvenient time
It's an inconvenient time
I've turned my cheek as my history fades

Time, oh time, it's an inconvenient time
The evil sweeps them up
Afraid to say, my time has seen it's day

'Cuz I'm living in a time of inconvenience
And here I am, one lonely woman on these mean streets
Living in a time of inconvenience

'Cuz they're living in our time of inconvenience
And pretend that it's not there
I never thought I'd be ashamed to be human

'Cuz I'm living in a time of inconvenience
'Cuz it's an inconvenient time
Where greed has become a sophistication
This is the time of greed and power
At an inconvenient time
The evil seems to cling to the soles of my feet
This is the time of greed and power
Living in a time of inconvenience
And there they are, our children

We're living in the age of communication
They're living in the age of communication
Here I go again back out on these mean streets
And if you ain't got money, you ain't got nothin' in this land
This is the time that I wish was not mine
Listening for freedom but they don't know the sound

'Cuz I'm living in his time of inconvenience