Where The Wild Roses Grow by Nick Cave

They call me The Wild Rose but my name (1)______ Elisa Day

Why they call me it I do not (2)________ for my name was Elisa Day

From the first day I met her I (3)________ she was the one
As she [ . . . ] in my eyes and [ . . . ]
For her lips were the colour of the (4)__________ that grew down the river, all bloody and (5)__________

When he came on my door and entered the (6)__________
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful (7)__________ he wiped up the tears that went down my (8)__________

They call me The Wild Rose but my name (9)______ Elisa Day

Why they call me it I do not (10)________ for my name was Elisa Day

On the (11)____________ day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, 'Do you know where the wild (12)__________ grow so sweet and scarlet and free?'

On the (13)____________ day he smiled with a single rose
Said: 'Will you (14)________ 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 (15)______ Elisa Day

Why they call me it I do not (16)________ for my name was Elisa Day

On the (17)__________ day he took me to the river
He gave me the roses and we (18)______________
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word as he knelt above me with a rock in his (19)__________

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the (20)________ light as a thief
As I told her goodbye, said, 'All beauty must die'
And I lent down and planted a rose between her (21)__________

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