[ti:Where The Roses Grow] [ar:Kylie Minouge&Nick Cave] [al:] [00:01.23]Where The Wild Roses Grow [00:02.13] [00:03.23]BY: [00:04.04]For Jack Chan [00:07.24] [00:09.94]They call me The Wild Rose [00:16.78]But my name was Elisa Day [00:21.49]Why they call me that I do not know [00:28.40]For my name was Elisa Day [00:31.81] [00:33.18]From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one [00:37.91]She stared in my eyes and smiled [00:42.58]For her lips were the colour of the roses [00:47.32]That grew down the river, all bloody and wild [00:51.94] [00:52.30]When he knocked on my door and entered the room [00:56.65]My trembling subsided and in his sure embrace [01:01.33]He would be my first man, a work a full hand [01:06.16]He wiped at the tears that ran down my face [01:10.01] [01:12.87]They call me The Wild Rose [01:19.91]But my name was Elisa Day [01:24.51]Why they call me that I do not know [01:31.34]For my name was Elisa Day [01:36.16] [01:36.53]On the second day I brought her a flower [01:40.95]She was more beautiful than any woman I've seen [01:45.83]I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow [01:50.70]So sweet and scarlet and free?" [01:53.47] [01:55.03]On the second day he came with a single red rose [01:59.31]He said: "Give me your loss and your sorrow?" [02:04.33]I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed [02:09.25]"If I show you the roses will you follow?" [02:12.80] [02:15.95]They call me The Wild Rose [02:23.15]But my name was Elisa Day [02:27.23]Why they call me that I do not know [02:34.27]For my name was Elisa Day [02:38.84] [02:39.80]On the third day he took me to the river [02:43.99]He showed me the roses and we kissed [02:48.62]And the last thing I heard was a muttered word [02:53.89]As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist [02:58.12] [02:58.48]On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow [03:02.77]She lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief [03:07.14]And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die" [03:11.74]And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth [03:18.65] [03:18.98]They call me The Wild Rose [03:25.53]But my name was Elisa Day [03:30.43]Why they call me that I do not know [03:36.92]For my name was Elisa Day