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