Nick Cave - where the wild roses grow

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 Cave]

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 colour of the roses 

That grew down the river, all bloody and wild 

[Kylie Minogue]

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 Cave]

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?"

[Kylie Minogue] 

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?" 

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 Minogue]

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 Cave]

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow 

And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief 

And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty 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