I learnt tough was just how hard a man could hit a man
You don't back down from a fight, and that was understood
I learnt tough was drinking hard and laying rubber down
Driving fast and living large, that V8 growling under the hood
Now it's working overtime when you got mouths to feed
It's paying off that mortgage, yeah, it's owning the deed
It's every soldier fighting that may never come home
It's sticking to your guns when you're going it alone
It's living when we lose the ones we love
There's all kinds of tough
I learnt tough meant man enough to never show your fear
That men don't cry, you don't complain, and that was understood
Yeah, I learnt tough meant getting up and never staying down
Yeah, Steve McQueen and Jimmy Dean, John Wayne
Made tough look good, so good
Now it's working overtime when you got mouths to feed
It's paying off that mortgage, yeah, it's owning the deed
It's every soldier fighting that may never come home
It's sticking to your guns when you're going it alone
It's living when we lose the ones we love
There's all kinds of tough
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I've learnt tough's the kind of stuff that lives in every man
Yeah, I've learnt tough is more than just what I knew back then
Now it's working overtime when you got mouths to feed
It's paying off that mortgage, yeah, it's owning the deed
It's every soldier fighting that may never come home
It's sticking to your guns when you're going it alone
It's working overtime when you got mouths to feed
It's paying off that mortgage, yeah, it's owning the deed
It's every soldier fighting that may never come home
It's sticking to your guns when you're going it alone
It's living when we lose the ones we love
It's living when we lose the ones we love
There's all kinds of tough
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There's all kinds of tough