Where the Wild Roses Grow-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:Where the Wild Roses Grow(feat] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:Murder Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:17.81]They call me The Wild Rose [00:19.83]But my name was Elisa Day [00:21.26]Why they call me it I do not know [00:27.46]For my name was Elisa Day [00:32.89]From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one [00:38.71]She stared in my eyes and smiled [00:42.14]For her lips were the colour of the roses [00:45.65]That grew down the river all bloody and wild [00:52.27]When he knocked on my door and entered the room [00:56.21]My trembling subsided in his sure embrace [01:00.90]He would be my first man and with a careful hand [01:07.64]He wiped at the tears that ran down my face [01:09.93] [01:31.94]On the second day I brought her a flower [01:45.00]She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen [01:46.94]I said "Do you know where the wild roses grow [01:51.44]So sweet and scarlet and free " [01:54.63]On the second day he came with a single red rose [02:05.06]Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow" [02:07.63]I nodded my head as I lay on the bed [02:09.00]He said "If I show you the roses will you follow " [02:11.13] [02:35.46]On the third day he took me to the river [02:43.24]He showed me the roses and we kissed [02:48.30]And the last thing I heard was a muttered word [02:52.80]As he knelt (stood smiling) above me with a rock in his fist [02:59.43]On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow [03:02.06]And she lay on the bank the wind light as a thief [03:06.99]And I kissed her goodbye said "All beauty must die" [03:12.24]And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth