Survivor

Album: Chain Breaker (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • Zach Williams wrote this song with Chain Breaker producer Jonathan Smith and regular TobyMac collaborator Bryan Fowler. It details how Williams was "rescued from the grip of sin" by God's grace and now he's "alive and born again."
  • When Williams was writing "Survivor," his wife Crystal came into his head. She experienced a fire accident in her early teens and though the song is about his own personal testimony, he also had in mind that she survived her life-threatening encounter.

    You pulled me out of the fire
    I'm a survivor


    William told Freeccm that Crystal's story got him thinking about how many of us are survivors. "The one thing we can all relate to is that through Jesus," he explained. "He can pull us out of any place that we're at and we can all become survivors."

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