Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics

Where The Wild Roses Grow lyrics

Kylie Minogue feat. Nick Cave

 

 Where The Wild Roses Grow

 Why they call me it I do not know

 For my name is 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

 That 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 at the tears that ran down my face

 

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 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 red rose

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

 I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed

 He said, "if I show you the roses will you follow?"

 

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 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

 

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