Kamelot where the wild roses grow lyrics

вЂњFor her lips were the color of the roses It sounds old-fashioned and clichГ©, but the song is soon going to treat this theme a more original way. We can easily recognize the old stereotype of love at first sight. From there, we expect to know whether the love story will stand or not: implicitly, it gives us the goal: stay together, or not.ДЇor the moment, the two characters share the same actantial role: they are both Hero, and there is no Antagonist yet. This first meeting is the catalyst of what will obviously be a love story. The contrast between Kylie MinogueвЂ™s soft, high-pitched voice, and Nick CaveвЂ™s deep, bassy, rocky voice, contributes to dramatize the situation and carries something erotic at the same time: female/male. It is obviously more interesting to tell the story from two sides rather than only one. This double point of view over the same events will characterize the whole song. The narrator changes and becomes a man, interpreted by Nick Cave. вЂњFrom the first day I saw her I knew she was the one The fact this chorus is written both at present (вЂњthey call meвЂќ) and past times (вЂњmy name wasвЂќ) plays as a discrete hint of what is going to happen to her. This chorus also stands as the beginning of Act I: exposition.ДЇor the moment, she is the narrator of the story. This chorus sung by the sweet, feminine voice of Kylie Minogue, gives us straight away two major plot elements: 1/ the theme, itвЂ™s about a woman compared to a rose, and 2/ the Antagonist вЂ“ even if we do not know yet that she will soon get such a status. The song, that lasts 3:57, starts, after a brief violin-based instrumental, by the CHORUS:

Kamelot where the wild roses grow lyrics