Where the Wild Roses Grow

[ti:Where The Wild Roses Grow] [ar:Nick Cave] [00:09]They call me The Wild Rose [00:16]But my name was Elisa Day [00:21]Why they call me it I do not know [00:27]For my name was Elisa Day [00:33]From the first day I saw I knew she was the one [00:37]As she stared in my eyes and smiled [00:42]For her lips were the colour of the roses [00:47]That grew down the river, all bloody and wild [00:51]When he knocked on my door and entered the room [00:56]My trembling subsided in his sure embrace [01:01]He would be my first man, and with a careful hand [01:06]He wiped at the tears that ran down my face [01:12]They call me The Wild Rose [01:19]But my name was Elisa Day [01:24]Why they call me it I do not know [01:31]For my name was Elisa Day [01:36]On the second day I brought her a flower [01:40]She was more beautiful than any woman I’d seen [01:45]I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow [01:50]So sweet and scarlet and free?" [01:55]On the second day he came with a single red rose [01:59]Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?" [02:04]I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed [02:08]He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?" [02:16]He call me The Wild Rose [02:22]But my name was Elisa Day [02:27]Why He call me it I do not know [02:34]For my name was Elisa Day [02:39]On the third day he took me to the river [02:43]He showed me the roses and we kissed [02:48]And the last thing I heard was a muttered word [02:53]As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist [02:57]On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow [03:02]And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief [03:06]As I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die" [03:11]And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth [03:18]They call me The Wild Rose [03:25]But my name was Elisa Day [03:30]Why they call me it I do not know [03:36]For my name was Elisa Day