Goodbye Norma Jean Though I never knew you all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you 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 seems me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling to When the set in And I would have liked to have known you But I was just a kid Your burned out long before Your legend ever(*) did
Loneliness was tough The toughest role you ever played Hollywood a superstar And pain the price you paid Even when you died Oh the press still hounded you All papers had 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