Where the Wild Roses Grow

Nick Cave / Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1995)

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	Em	G
From the	first day I saw her I knew	she was the one

	Em	B
She	stared in my eyes and	smiled.

	Em	G
Her	lips were the colour of the	roses

	Em	B
That	grow down the river all	bloody and wild.

	Em	G
When he	knocked on my door and	entered the room

	Am	B
My	trembling subsided in	his sure embrace.

	Em	G
He would	be my first man and	with a careful hand

	Am	B	B7
He	wiped off the tears that	run down my face.

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?"

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 banks 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.