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Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw
Vocals
Dennis DeYoung
Dennis DeYoung
Keyboards
Chuck Panozzo
Chuck Panozzo
Bass Guitar
John Panozzo
John Panozzo
Drums
James Oliver "Trummy" Young
James Oliver "Trummy" Young
Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw
Songwriter
Styx
Styx
Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Styx
Styx
Producer
Barry Mraz
Barry Mraz
Engineer
Robin Kingsland
Robin Kingsland
Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' 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
[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' my back to the wall
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man
[Verse 6]
Keepin' 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
[Verse 7]
Ooh, ooh ooh yeah
[Verse 8]
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' 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
[Verse 9]
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just who I am
Well, I vow to be a blue collar, gotta be a blue collar
Gonna be a blue collar man
[Verse 10]
Hey
Believe it
Written by: Tommy Shaw
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