blue collar man (long nights)

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

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

when 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