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Where the Wild Roses Grow

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (featuring Kylie Minogue)

Chorus:
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                                                                                                   *(ici: car)

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[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

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[Kylie Minogue]
When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided* in his sure embrace                                          *(to subside=se calmer, s’apaiser)
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped at the tears that ran down my face

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Chorus

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[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
He said: "Give me your loss and your sorrow*"                                                         *(=extreme sadness)
I nodded* my head, as I lay on the bed                                                                         *(to nod = hocher)
He said, "If I show you the roses, will you follow?"

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Chorus

 

[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                                               *(to mutter=marmonner)
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 I leant down and planted a rose between her teeth

 

 

Chorus