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 woodwork And whispered into your brain They set you on the 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 When the rain set in And I would have liked to have known you I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever(*) did
Loneliness was tough The toughest role you ever played created a superstar And pain was the price you paid Even when died Oh the press still hounded you All the had to say Was that Marilyn 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