The English Roses One of the teachers there had described the girls as "The English Roses" which Madonna found "funny". She had already progressed with a few other stories but wanted to write about girls who always felt they did not have "enough". The death of Madonna's mother at an early age had always affected her, and her musical endeavors. So while developing Binah, she drew from her own experience of dealing with her mother's death. Like her, Binah kept a picture of her mother beside her bed. It was Madonna's "own personal experience and I needed to come up with things for
Naïve / The Days of Swine & Roses Roses" was ranked No. 61 on "COMA Music Magazine"s 101 Greatest Industrial Songs of All Time. Naïve / The Days of Swine & Roses "Naïve"/"The Days of Swine & Roses" is a split single released by KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. "Naïve" is the title track from the KMFDM album of the same name. "The Days of Swine & Roses" originally appeared on the My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult album "Confessions of a Knife". An edited version of the Thrill Kill Kult remix of "Naïve" was made into a music video, and hit No.