Blue Collar — текст песни (styx)

Blue Collar Man
from the Styx LP Pieces of Eight
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
You`re seen 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 on the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well 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 night to be just who I am
Well I`m gonna be a blue collar man
Keeping my mind on a better life
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away
Paradise--can it be all I head it was
I close my eyes and maybe I`m already there.
Transcribed by Rich Kulawiec, rsk@ecn.purdue.edu