Lyrics: Where the Wild Roses Grow, by Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue

   
   
 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 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"         
 Lent down and planted a rose between her teeth
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