All Kinds of Tough

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 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 There's all kinds of tough