歌手:Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
专辑:《Lovely Creatures - The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984-2014) [Deluxe Edition]》

作词 : Nick Cave
作曲 : Nick Cave

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 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 Elisa Day

Why they call me it 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'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
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 Elisa Day

Why they call me it I do not know

For my name was Elisa 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 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
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

My name was Elisa Day

For my name was Elisa Day