Blue Collar Man Lyrics - Dennis Deyoung And The Music Of Styx Live In Los Angeles - Dennis Deyoung

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 

You 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 the long night, 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 respectable, man 

this is my last time in the unemployment line 

so like it or not, I'll take the 

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 

do do do do do do do do do do do 

you don't understand 

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 night to be just who I am 

well, I'd rather be a blue collar 

got to be a blue collar 

gonna be a blue collar man