Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)

Tommy Shaw

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

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)
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Make me an offer that I can't refuse
Make me a 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 night to be just what 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

I'll take those (long nights, impossible odds)
Keeping my back to the wall
(All that to be just what I am)
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

(You don't understand)

I'll take those (long nights, impossible odds)
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
If it takes (all night to be just what I am)
Well I'm bound be a blue collar, gotta be a blue collar
Gonna be a blue collar man

Believe it!

Trivia about the song Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) by Styx

On which albums was the song “Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)” released by Styx?
Styx released the song on the albums “Pieces Of Eight” in 1978, “The Act Live” in 1984, “Return To Paradise” in 1997, “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection” in 2002, “Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology (Remastered)” in 2004, “Big Bang Theory” in 2005, “One With Everything” in 2006, “Regeneration I & II” in 2011, and “Live At The Orleans Arena” in 2015.
Who composed the song “Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)” by Styx?
The song “Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)” by Styx was composed by Tommy Shaw.

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