Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) by Styx
Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) by Styx

Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)

Styx * Track #6 On Pieces of Eight

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Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) by Styx

Release Date
Fri Sep 01 1978
Performed by
Styx
Produced by
John Panozzo & Dennis DeYoung & James Young & Chuck Panozzo & Tommy Shaw
Writed by
Tommy Shaw
About

Styx didn’t shy away from the occasional political song, and this is a straightforward statement of solidarity with industrial working-class Americans. In 1978, the U.S. unemployment rate was only about 6-7%, but the industrial sector was in free fall. The year before, for example, one of America’...

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Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) 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
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

[Hook]
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

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Bridge 1]
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

Ooh yeah

[Chorus]
I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
All that to be just what I am
I'm gonna be a blue collar man

[Bridge 2]
Do do do do do do do do
(You don't understand)
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do

[Chorus]
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
Gotta be a blue collar
Gonna be a blue collar man

[Outro]
Alright!
Believe it

Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) Q&A

Who wrote Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)'s ?

Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) was written by Tommy Shaw.

Who produced Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)'s ?

Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) was produced by John Panozzo & Dennis DeYoung & James Young & Chuck Panozzo & Tommy Shaw.

When did Styx release Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)?

Styx released Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) on Fri Sep 01 1978.

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