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.
A version of the melody appears in the 1984 movie The Wild Life which was scored by Eddie Van Halen. Hagar says the lyrics for Right Now were the best he ever wrote for a Van Halen song.I was tired of writing cheap sex songs, he recalled almost two decades later.Eddie and I wanted to get serious and talk about world issues..agar says the lyrics for Right Now were the best he ever wrote for a Van Halen song. I was tired of writing cheap sex songs, he recalled almost two decades later. Eddie and I wanted to get serious and talk about world issues..