WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS + KYLIE MINOGUE

VERÖFFENTLICHUNG

2. Oktober 1995

  

CHARTSPLATZIERUNGEN

CH 11 / DE 12 / AT 4 / UK 11 / EU 8 / AU 2 / US - / CA - / JP -

Weitere Chartsplatzierungen und Informationen auf www.wikipedia.org

 

GESCHICHTE

Die Veröffentlichung von «Time Will Pass You By», der geplanten 4. Single aus dem Album «Kylie Minogue», wurde gecancelt für die wunderschöne Mörder-Ballade «Where The Wild Roses Grow». Kylie und Nick Cave schafften es Europaweit in die Top 20 und wurden zum ungewöhnlichsten Duett-Paar der Pop-Geschichte. «Where The Wild Roses Grow» erreichte Platz 2 in Australien und wurde als bester Pop Release und beste Single des Jahres mit zwei ARIA Awards geehrt. 

 

Credits

Written by: Nick Cave

Produced by: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Tony Cohen / Victor Van Vugt

 

TRACKLIST

  1. Where The Wild Roses Grow
  2. The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
  3. The Willow Garden

 

LYRICS

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

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 color 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

[Chorus]

They call me 'The Wild Rose'

But my name was Elisa Day

Why they call me that, I do not know

For my name was Elisa 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, "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?"

[Repeat Chorus]

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, and went light as a thief

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

And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

[Repeat Chorus]

My name was Elisa Day

For my name was Elisa Day

WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW – COVER
WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW – COVER
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