Goodbye Norma Jean Though I never knew you at all You the grace to hold yourself While those around crawled They crawled out of the woodwork And they whispered into your brain They set you on the treadmill And they 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 rain set in 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 was tough toughest role you ever played Hollywood created a superstar And pain was the price you Even when you died Oh the press still hounded you All the papers had to say Was that Marilyn was found in 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