Blue Collar Man Lyrics

Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
Styx

Give me a job give me security, give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line, my God I'm hardly alive
My mother 'n father, my wife and my friends, you've seen theml augh in my face
But I've got the power and I've got the will, I'm not a charity case

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye on the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Make me an offer that I can't refuse, make me respectable man
This is my last time in the unemployment line, so like it or not

I'll take those long night, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
If it takes all night to be just who I am
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Keeping my mind on a better life
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away
Paradise can it be all I heard it was
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there

(repeat chorus)