Kylie Minogue F- Nick Cave Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics

Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics

CHORUS: 

 They call me The Wild Rose 

 But my name was Elisa Day 

 Why they call me it I do not know 

 For my name was Elisa Day 

 

 From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one 

 As she stared in my eyes and smiled 

 For her lips were the colour of the roses 

 They grew down the river, all bloody and wild 

 

 When he knocked on my door and entered the room 

 My trembling subsided in his sure embrace 

 He would be my first man, and with a careful hand 

 He wiped the tears that ran down my face 

 

 CHORUS 

 

 On the second day I brought her a flower 

 She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen 

 I said, 'Do you know where the wild roses grow 

 So sweet and scarlet and free?' 

 

 On the second day he came with a single rose 

 Said: 'Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?' 

 I nodded my head, as I layed on the bed 

 He said, 'If I show you the roses will you follow?' 

 

 CHORUS 

 

 On the third day he took me to the river 

 He showed me the roses and we kissed 

 And the last thing I heard was a muttered word 

 As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist 

 

 On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow 

 And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief 

 As I kissed her goodbye, I said, 'All beauty must die' 

 And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth 

 

 CHORUS