Moab

Tonight and most of the week, I will camping in Moab, Utah. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my poetry packet with me on my trip, so I decided to blog about a song I have heard called, Moab. Good reasoning, right?(:

Moab
Conor Oberst
I used up your compassion
So I've come to make a trade
You can hate me but just love me in return And if I know where to find you
I'll stay out of your way
I won't come beg to borrow all the happiness you earned

I'll just slide back down to the bottom While you make your place in the hills

There's nothing that the road cannot heal
There's nothing that the road cannot heal
Washed under the blacktop
Gone beneath my wheels
There's nothing that the road cannot heal

They say the sun won't burn forever
but that's a science too exact
I can prove it - Watch, we're crossing the state line
See those headlights coming towards us?
That's someone going back
To a town they said they'd never,yeah
They swore it on their lives

But you can't break out of a circle
That you never knew you were in
There's nothing that the road cannot heal
There's nothing that the road cannot heal
Washed under the blacktop
Gone beneath my wheels
There's nothing that the road cannot heal

Some would spend their precious time
trying to decorate their lives
Taking measurements for some new look they want
So from one to ten - ten's exactly what I am
Zero being everything I'm not
Tell me what you like

Is it less than five?
Is it less than five?

There's nothing that the road cannot heal
There's nothing that the road cannot heal
When I make it to Moab
I'll get my canteen filled
There's nothing that the road cannot heal
Washed under the blacktop
Gone beneath my wheels
There's nothing that the road cannot heal

This song is basically about how getting away or taking a break can replenish someone. In this case, a road trip to Moab, which is known as an outdoor, adventure place.

The first two stanzas are the main reasons why the singer, Conor Oberst, is sad, or needs a change.

The chorus is straightforward, a road trip, or getting away makes people feel a lot better and leave their, in a way, small problems behind ("Washed under the blacktop, gone beneath my wheels").

The rest of the song talks about material things that bring us down in life ("Some would spend their precious time trying to decorate their lives...") and how change, taking a break, etc. can clear your head ("That's someone going back to a town they said they'd never...").

The end is my favorite when Oberst says, "When I make it to Moab, I'll get my canteen filled. There's nothing that the road cannot heal." Oberst uses a metaphor to show that when he makes it to Moab, he will be rejuvenated and replenished, as if he was getting his canteen full again.

I can say that the last couple of weeks in school has really worn me out, and once I got to Moab, I realized how nice a break is. Therefore, I definitely related to this song.(: