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