Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Go

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He called me the wild ro -- se
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But my name was Elisa Day
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Why he called me that I do not kno --- w
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For my name was Elisa  Day


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From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
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She stared in my eyes and smiled
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Her lips were the colour of the roses
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That grow down the river all bloody and wild


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When he knocked on my door and entered the room
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My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
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He would be my first man and with a careful hand
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He wiped off the tears that run 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
He said "Give me your lust and your sorrow"
I nodded my head as I lay on the bed
"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 martyr word
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
She lay on the bank going light as a thief 
And I kissed her goodbye, said all beauty must die
And I leant down and planted a rose between her teeth

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