NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - "Where the Wild Roses Grow"
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Chorus:
He called me the wild ro-ose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why he called me that I do not kno-ow
For my name was Elisa Day
She stared in my eyes and smiled
Her lips were the colour of the roses
That grow 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 off the tears that run 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 red rose He said "Give me your lust and your sorrow" I nodded my head as I lay on the bed "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 martyr word As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist
On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow She lay on the bank going light as a thief (?) And I kissed her goodbye, said all beauty must die And I leant down and planted a rose between her teeth
