Where The Wild Roses Grow

There’s a good song and then there’s a good song. What I mean is that, some song is just so good that I just feel triumphant about it. Like Nick Cave’s “Where the Wild Roses Grow” which he sang with Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue, a song I’ve heard on TV, in a music video some years ago and never heard about till now. The thing is Nick Cave is so popular worldwide but he ain’t as such in our territory that not even a shadow of any of his albums was seen in any local music store. That way, I forgot about Mr. Cave, even if I liked him the first time I’ve heard his voice, singing “There Is A Light” in the soundtrack of Batman Forever movie.

Maybe Nick Cave sounded so much like Jim Morrison of The Doors that I could not help but feel so enamored by his voice as Jim remains the most iconic of all musicians for me, just like Bono and Bob Dylan, and since he is now gone, Nick Cave and his songs just felt so fulfilling to me, so in time, truly wondrous and celebratory.

I don’t know specifically, but I thought this song “Where the Wild Roses Grow” is just a very good song, while Nick Cave is just a very clever musician. And mind you, the music video that goes with the song is classic to the sight, like a critically-acclaimed movie from Akira Kurosawa, such as “Dreams” and reminds me so much of a dream I had some years back, one that was so vivid and most memorable of all, to which I have written about as “The Pond” and truly, if I could picture that very memorable dream in a movie, it would most probably have this kind of look and feel, so meaningful and yet so silent, like words have no meaning at all, for no words is necessary, and everything is animated and heavy with meaningful thoughts.

At the beginning of the song, there’s the entrance of violins, and then came the piano, and I thought if Mozart were alive today, this was his own masterpiece. And the lyrics is pure poetry, such as Shakespeare or Dickinson, and Nick Cave should have won a Nobel Prize for this. Sadly, they don’t give that damn award to rock musicians.

Without further adieu, this is Nick Cave’s “Where The Wild Roses Grow”: