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Surviving The Game
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Nov 4, 2026 updated
Dominion album
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Song Meaning
Skillet's "Surviving The Game" builds its whole argument on one borrowed phrase: "To be more than a conqueror." The verses are combative, with a narrator who tells an accuser "I'm gonna take back what you took before" and insists that suffering can be fed into something useful. "Give the pain a purpose" becomes the pre-chorus plea, and the chorus answers with big claims of being unstoppable and indestructible.
Fear gets named directly in the second verse, where liars circle "like the wolves of the walls" and the singer still stands tall, a lion refusing to "let this kingdom fall." The bridge shifts from boasting to a settled identity: "I am more than a conqueror, the past behind me, life is ahead." That line echoes Paul's wording in Romans 8, where victory comes through Christ's love rather than raw willpower.
Read next to John 16:33, the song pairs honest trouble with confident endurance. It works as a workout-ready anthem, yet its core claim is that hardship is real and does not get the last word.
Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team
To be more than a conqueror
You have to learn to enjoy the pain
If you want to survive the game
You can try to defeat me (Beat me)
You don't know it's the pain that'll feed me (Feed me)
And I'm gonna take back what you took before (Before)
'Cause I was born for this
All the bones that you're breakin' (Breakin')
You pretend that you're the one that can save me (Save me)
Now I'm takin' it back, it was never yours (Never yours)
I'm fightin'
Fightin' for my focus
Give the pain a purpose
Light the fire inside
Feel it come alive (Come alive)
Show 'em what I'm made of
Victories for the brave ones
Who never bowed a knee
When it's do or die (Do or die-ie-ie)
One more time
Survivin' the game
I can be unstoppable
Gonna walk through Hell
Gonna shake the walls
Survive, survivin' the game (Survivin' the game)
Livin' the impossible
I'm the champion, indestructible (Survive)
Survive, 'cause I'm survivin' the game
I can be unstoppable
Gonna be indestructible
I can be unstoppable
Gonna be indestructible
All the liars around me
Like the wolves of the walls, they surround me
In the face of the fear, I keep standin' tall
'Cause I will conquer this
I come out like a lion (Lion)
I was born to be demon-defiant (Defiant)
And I won't ever let this kingdom fall (Fall)
I'll show 'em
Show 'em what you're made of
Victories for the brave ones
Never bow the knee
'Cause it's do or die (Do or die-ie-ie)
One more time
Survivin' the game
I can be unstoppable
Gonna walk through Hell
Gonna shake the walls
Survive, survivin' the game (Survivin' the game)
Livin' the impossible
I'm the champion, indestructible (Survive)
Survive, 'cause I'm survivin' the game (Game)
I am more than a conqueror
The past behind me, life is ahead
I'll take the way of the warrior
I walk alone, no fear to the death
One more time
Survivin' the game
I can be unstoppable
Gonna walk through Hell
Gonna shake the walls
Survive, survivin' the game (Survivin' the game)
Livin' the impossible
I'm the champion, indestructible (Survive)
Survive, 'cause I'm survivin' the game (Survive)
Survivin' the game (Survive)
Survivin' the game
Livin' the impossible
I'm the champion, indestructible (Survive)
Survive, 'cause I'm survivin' the game (Survive)
I can be unstoppable
Gonna be indestructible
I can be unstoppable
Gonna be indestructible