Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)

[00:19.68] Give me a job, give me security [00:23.42] Give me a chance to survive [00:27.02] I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line [00:31.68] My God, I'm hardly alive [00:35.38] My mother and father, my wife and my friends [00:39.00] You see them laugh in my face [00:41.10] But I've got the power, and I've got the will [00:46.46] I'm not a charity case [00:49.13] I'll take those long nights, impossible odds [00:53.76] Keeping my eye in the keyhole [00:57.52] If it takes all that to be just what I am [01:01.25] I'm gonna be a blue collar man [01:11.05] Make me an offer that I can't refuse [01:15.08] Make me respectable, man [01:18.88] This is my last time in the unemployment line [01:23.06] So like it or not I'll take those [01:27.07] Long nights, impossible odds [01:30.76] Keeping my back to the wall [01:34.42] If it takes all that to be just what I am [01:38.11] I'm gonna be a blue collar man [01:41.85] Keeping my mind on a better life [01:47.44] When happiness is only a heartbeat away [01:55.78] Paradise, can it be all I heard it was [02:03.15] I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there [02:11.49]