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