Half sunk, a shatter'd visage liesâ¦. 1  Here the traveler begins his speech. He tells the speaker about a pair of stone legs that are somehow still standing in the middle of the desert. 2  Those legs are huge (vast) and trunkless.. Trunkless means without a torso, so it's a pair of legs with no body.
Beds Are Burning-Midnight Oil. Lyrics. Out where the river broke. The bloodwood and the desert oak. Holden wrecks and boiling diesels. Steam in forty five degrees. The time has come. To say fair's fair. To pay the rent. To pay our share.
Where Did You Sleep Last Night%3F by Leadbelly Songfacts. 1  This is about a man who finds out his wife has been cheating on him. He goes out into the cold night and is killed in an accident. 2  Nirvana covered this on their 1993 Unplugged In New York album. Kurt Cobain introduced it by saying, This song is by my favorite performer..