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MercyMe’s “Say I Won’t” is centered on the idea of the narrator experiencing a new lease on life. That is to say that he has become aware of a heightened potential which living holds. In the first verse, he sounds sort of like he had a life-changing event or at least an epiphany which has made him realize that he has been operating under maximum capacity.
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This song was written by MercyMe frontman Bart Millard alongside Jordan Mohilowski. And Mohilowski is also one of the track’s producers, with the following being the others:
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“Say I Won’t” is to be featured on a forthcoming MercyMe project entitled “Inhale (Exhale)”.
The aforementioned Gary Miracle is a long-time roadie of MercyMe. He had his extremities amputated in January of 2020 after suffering from septic shock. And the music video to “Say I Won’t”, which was co-directed by Ryan Slaughter, chronicles his road to recovery.
Brody Harper is also a co-director of the video.
