I have two points here, one more petty then the other, first I think you are taking the words “will to survive” too literally and, basically out of context. Read the whole song, it is about achievement. It’s about having an unbreakable will and defeating your opponents or achievement, it is celebrating your believes. The first verse all he is saying he is I survived hard times and now that I did I'm going to go achieve. Very simply put that's the whole song. No where in the song does it imply to forgo success for survival.

Now, my more legitimate point is that I do agree with you in a way but I would challenge what you mean by achieve, contribute, or matter. I personally think that living ethically should be more important than either success or survival. I would rather just survive ethically, then achieve, contribute, or, matter in way that is untrue to myself. For example, if I owned a brewery and was making just enough to survive and there was a brewery next door and a computer hacker came to me and said I can lie and tarnish the other breweries name on the internet and it will run them out of business and you will then grow and get both customer bases and become more successful, I would say no. I would rather just make my living in a way I deemed ethically right and take the chances of whatever happens next. Also I would rather die than survive in a way that is untrue to myself. If I was in the military and was told to go kill a village of innocent people or I would be killed, I would choose death, because surviving in a world that I'm actively hurting is the worse option. I suppose my point is that I would be more critical of achieving, contributing, or mattering because there are plenty of ways to do that negatively, and if you have true peace in just surviving then that is also a fulfilling life.