Musical Sunday

One of my favorite singer/songwriters is the late Nanci Griffith. This 1994 song from her album "Flyer" has long been one of my favorites, and it resonates powerfully in our national time of trial and peril.

Here are the lyrics: 

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

We're living in a time of inconvenience

Compassion fails me with this meaness in the air

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

Because 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

And 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 its day

Because I'm living in a time of inconvenience

Living in a time of inconvenience

Living in a time of inconvenience

In an inconvenient time

This is a 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

Because they're living in our time of inconvenience

They're living in the age of communication

This is a time of greed and power

This is a time that I wish was not mine

Because it's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

It's an inconvenient time

"This is a time that I wish was not mine." Truer words were seldom spoken.

Have a good day and enjoy the rest of your weekend. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo