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."
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."