Written by Tommy Shaw
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Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw
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Give me a job, give me security
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Give me a chance to survive
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I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
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My God, I'm hardly alive
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My mother and father, my wife and my friends
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I see them laugh in my face
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But I've got the power, and I've got the will
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I'm not a charity case
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I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
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Keeping my eye to the keyhole
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If it takes all that to be just what I am
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I'm gonna be a blue collar man
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Make me an offer that I can't refuse
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Make me respectable, man
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This is my last time in the unemployment line
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So like it or not I'll take those
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Long nights, impossible odds
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Keeping my back to the wall
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If it takes all that to be just what I am
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I'm gonna be a blue collar man
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Keeping my mind on a better life
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When happiness is only a heartbeat away
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Paradise, can it be all I heard it was
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I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there
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Blue Collar Man
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Styx & REO Speedwagon |