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