Nick Cave - Kylie Minogue Where the Wild Roses Grow (lyrics)

A song written by Nick Cave for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ninth album “Murder Ballads“ (1996), with guest vocals by 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 her I knew she was the one As she stared in my eyes and smiled For her lips were the colour of the roses They 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 the tears that ran down my face CHORUS 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 rose Said: ’Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?’ I nodded my