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Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) Lyrics By 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 and father my wife and my friends
    i see them laugh in my face
    but i’ve got the power and i’ve got the will
    i’m not a charity case

    hook
    i’ll take those long nights impossible odds
    keeping my eye to the keyhole
    if it takes all that to be just what i am
    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 nights impossible odds
    keeping my back to the wall
    if it takes all that to be just what i am
    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

    ooh yeah

    i’ll take those long nights impossible odds
    keeping my back to the wall
    all that to be just what i am
    i’m gonna be a blue collar man

    do do do do do do do do
    you don’t understand
    do do do do do do do do
    do do do do do do do do
    do do do do do do do do

    i’ll take those long nights impossible odds
    keeping my eye to the keyhole
    if it takes all that to be just what i am
    i’m gonna be a blue collar
    gotta be a blue collar
    gonna be a blue collar man

    alright
    believe it

    Artist: Styx

    Year: 1978

    Decade: 70s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 128