Nick cave - where the wild roses grow

[00:06][00:03]Where The Wild Roses Grow
[00:04]Nick Cave
[00:05]Murder Ballads

[00:10]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
[00:28]For my name was Elisa Day

[00:33]From the first day I saw her
[00:35]I knew she was the one
[00:38]As she stared in my eyes and smiled
[00:42]For her lips were the color 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
[01:05]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

[01:35]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
[01:49]So sweet and scarlet and free?"

[01:54]On the second day he came with a single red rose
[01:59]Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"
[02:03]I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed
[02:08]He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?"

[02:15]They call me the Wild Rose
[02:22]But my name was Elisa Day
[02:26]Why they call me it I do not know
[02:32]For my name was Elisa Day

[02:38]On the third day he took me to the river
[02:42]He showed me the roses and we kissed
[02:47]And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
[02:52]As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist

[02:56]On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
[03:01]And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
[03:05]And I kissed her goodbye, I said "All beauty must die"
[03:10]And lent down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth.

[03:16]They call me the Wild Rose
[03:23]But my name was Elisa Day
[03:28]Why they call me it I do not know
[03:35]For my name was Elisa Day