Where the wild roses grow lyrics, Schöngeist

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
They 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 up 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’s more beautiful than any woman I've seen
And 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 rose
He said: “Give me your loss and your sorrow”
I nodded my head as I laid 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 knelt 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