Devestation And Reform

I think that this song is talking about our sinful nature. The title "Devestation and Reform" are talking about how we sin, feel remorse (devestation), and we ask for forgiveness and try to not sin again (reform).

He talks about how it seems like he's born for devestation and reform. That's where our sinful nature as human's comes from. He talks about how we even when we are forgiven we're just "a shell of what I had when I first started." Meaning, before Adam first ate the apple. Since the original sin, we will never be without sin.

I don't understand all of the individual lines, but that's what I gather from the whole song.

What Matt Thiessen said about the song on the DVD that came with the Special Edition of Five Score and Seven Years Ago: "Devastation and Reform is basically stating the fact of life. That we screw things up, and we try to repair them. And a lot of times things get repaired for us, and we go and screw them up again. I wrote this song in the middle of the repirations. And it frustrates me because I feel like....the second verse deals with the whole masochistic sort of thing. I gotta hurt myself so I have a story to tell and there's got to be conflict. Then I gotta fix it all and then I got to do it again. It's about the cycle and the frustration."

First few lines: Fear can drive stick and its taking me down this road A road down which I swore I'd never go

Second verse: An injury I'll cause with my own fist it It seems to me to be slightly masochistic But there'd be no story without all this dissension So I inflict the conflict with the utmost of intention

This song has a great tune...meaning...umm...I think the meaning of this song might be to show that we need Jesus Christ to stop us from having "A shell of what I had when I first started"

i really love this song, it's the first one i heard off of their new album, and i absolutely fell in love with it. im not incredibly sure what it means, but i really like the lines, "So lock the windows, and bolt the doors/Cause I got enough problems without creating more". it's pretty much true, i wish i had a door i could just bolt to keep me from creating problems for myself.

I think it's about God, having to destroy us, in order to reform us. Like, I had two pets die in a short period (my first pet lived 3 weeks, second one lived 4), and I was sad
and kind of angry at God. But now I have the ability to comfort others who have had that happen to them. Or, it could mean that we mess up, and then we are so worried about building stuff back up, we mess up again, and it's only a little of what we originally had. We have to have God's help when we sin. That's what me and my dad think.

This song is sweet!! To me, it pretty much means alot to the people with hard times. Not only that it has alot of meaning to it, but it has such an upbeat rhythm and melody.

This song sort of reminds me of from end to end if only because of the self destruct in this song and then the could you take the gag off of my mouth...idk it was just a weird brain connection o and which song is that all of us are all too stuck strapped to a chair watching our lives blow up...that one too

yeah and dylanagibson i never saw that but thiessen like most everyone is a cyclical being making the same mistakes over in over again...so many of his songs deal with his frustration at being so inconsistent in all areas of his life...

this song is incredible! anyone who read my forgiven comment that wasnt even a comment it was more like a BOOK, this song helped me get through the same situation with that friend (who was actually my best friend at the time)

my FAVORITE PART IS THE BRIDGE ITS SO AMAZING!! Thank you, God, for giving me the insight So I might make these wrongs right If and when, there ever is a next time 'Cause failure is a blessing in disguise Pull my heart out, reconstruct In the end, it's nothing but A shell of what I had when I first started

its like saying thanks to God for giving me faith, the ability to see what what i did was wrong, etc. so that i could repair my mistake and that i can learn from the mistake (failure is a blessing in disguise) and then it goes on to say even though i pulled my heart out,and did everything in my power to repair the damage, all you are left with is a SHELL OF WHAT I HAD WHEN I FIRST STARTED. (my ex-best friend and I have made up and are on good terms, but the relationship is nowhere close to being what it was before (shell))

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