Where The Wild Roses Grow — Nick Cave

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 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 run down my face

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

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 the roses will you follow

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

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 As she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief As I kissed her goodbye, I said,All beaty must die And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

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