Goodbye Norma Jean Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to
hold yourself While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the
woodwork And they whispered into your brain They set you on a
treadmill And they made you change your name
And it seems to me you
lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling
to When the rain set in And I would have liked to have known you But I
was just a kid The candle burned out long before Your legend ever
did
Loneliness was tough The toughest role you ever
played Hollywood created a superstar And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died Oh the press still hounded you All the papers
had to say Was that Marilyn was found in the nude
And it seems to me
you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling
to When the rain set in Well I would have liked to have known you But
I was just a kid The candle burned out long before Your legend ever
did
Goodbye Norma Jean Though I never knew you at all Goodbye
Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something
as more than sexual More than just Marilyn Monroe
And it seems to me
you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling
to When the rain set in Well I would have liked to have known you But
I was just a kid The candle burned out long before Your legend ever
did
Goodbye Norma Jean Goodbye Norma Jean Goodbye Goodbye Norma
Jean