wilde rose

Wilde Rose

Nick Cave

Kylie: 
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

Nick: 
From the first day I saw her, I knew she was the one 
She stared in my eyes and smiled 
For her lips were the color of the roses 
That grew down the river, all bloody and wild 

Kylie: 
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 

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

Nick: 
On the second day, I brought her a flower 
She’s more beautiful than any woman I've seen 
And I said, “Do you know where the wild roses grow 
So sweet and scarlet and free?”

Kylie:
On the second day, he came with a single red rose 
He said, “Give me your loss and your sorrow”
I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed 
‘If I show you 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

Kylie: 
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 knelt above me with a rock in his fist 

Nick: 
On the last day, I took her where the wild roses grow 
She lay on the bank, and went light as a thief
And I kissed her goodbye, said, “All beauty must die”
And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth 

Kylie:
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
My name was Elisa Day
For my name was Elisa Day