For me, this song is about hard work and the American Dream.
Life is about hard work that always will turn itself to gold: "My prayers are gonna be answered." And "when there's a will, there's a way", so if you want to, you will reach your goals and you musn't search for reasons why it shouldn't work. If one knows that "at the end of the day The Lord helps those that help themselves" it is much easier to get through life. Not as other people who always moan when ther's something that has to be done.
The chorus says that you can live a humble life ("keep my head down") but you still can be happy, proud of yourself and self-confident ("keep on swinging")
The second stanza shows how it is, when you have reached what you wanted. You'll see that the work was worth the suffering and you feel superior to all the people who hated and were against you
For me, this song is about hard work and the American Dream.
Life is about hard work that always will turn itself to gold: "My prayers are gonna be answered." And "when there's a will, there's a way", so if you want to, you will reach your goals and you musn't search for reasons why it shouldn't work. If one knows that "at the end of the day The Lord helps those that help themselves" it is much easier to get through life. Not as other people who always moan when ther's something that has to be done.
The chorus says that you can live a humble life ("keep my head down") but you still can be happy, proud of yourself and self-confident ("keep on swinging")
The second stanza shows how it is, when you have reached what you wanted. You'll see that the work was worth the suffering and you feel superior to all the people who hated and were against you