All that to be just what I am
I'm not a charity case
If it takes all night to be just who I am
Well, I'd rather be a blue collar
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
I'll take the long nights, impossible odds
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man
My mother and father, my wife and my friends
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all night to be just what I am
You see them laugh in my face
But I've got the power and I've got the will
Keeping my mind on a better life
Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man
Keeping my back to the wall
Gonna be a blue collar man
Give me a job, give me security
Songwriter: Tommy Shaw
Paradise, can it be all I heard, it was
Got to be a blue collar
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Keeping my back to the wall
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
So like it or not
Make me an offer that I can't refuse
My God, I'm hardly alive
You don't understand
This is my last time in the unemployment line
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Give me a chance to survive
Publishers: ALMO MUSIC CORP, STYGIAN SONGS
I'll take the long nights, impossible odds
Make me respectable man