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Artist/Band: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Lyrics for Song: Where The Wild Roses Grow
Lyrics for Album: Murder Ballads [1996]



They call me The Wild Rose

But my name was Eliza Day

Why they call me it I do not know

For my name was Eliza Day



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



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 Eliza Day

Why they call me that I do not know

For my name was Eliza Day



On the second day I brought her a flower

She was more beautiful than any woman I've 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: "Will you 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 Eliza Day

Why they call me that I do not know

For my name was Eliza Day



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



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

She lay on the bank, the wind lied as a thief

And I kissed her goodbye, said "All beauty must die"

And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth



They call me The Wild Rose

But my name was Eliza Day

Why they call me it I do not know

For my name was Eliza Day



My name was Eliza Day

For my name was Eliza Day


Album Lyrics: Murder Ballads [1996]


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"Murder Ballads [1996]"


1. Song Of Joy
2. Stagger Lee
3. Lovely Creature
4. Where The Wild Roses Grow
5. The Curse Of Millhaven
6. The Kindness Of Strangers
7. Crow Jane
8. O'Malley's Bar
9. Death Is Not The End