GOODBYE NORMA JEAN
THOUGH I NEVER
KNEW YOU AT ALL
YOU HAD THE GRACE
TO HOLD YOURSELF
WHILE THOSE
AROUND YOU CRAWLED
THEY CRAWLED
OUT OF THE WOODWORK
AND THEY WHISPERED
INTO YOUR BRAIN
THEY SET YOU
ON THE TREADMILL
AND THEY MADE
YOU CHANGE YOUR NAME
AND IT SEEMS TO ME
YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE
LIKE A CANDLE IN THE WIND
NEVER KNOWIN'
WHO TO CLING TO
WHEN THE 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 EVER DID
LONELINESS WAS TOUGH
THE TOUGHEST ROLE
YOU EVER PLAYED
HOLLYWOOD CREATED
A SUPERSTAR
AND PAIN WAS
THE PRICE YOU PAID
AND EVEN WHEN YOU DIED
OH, THE PRESS
STILL HOUNDED YOU
ALL THE PAPERS HAD TO SAY
WAS THAT MARILYN
WAS FOUND IN THE NUDE
AND IT SEEMS TO ME
YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE
LIKE A CANDLE IN THE WIND
NEVER KNOWIN'
WHO TO CLING TO
WHEN THE 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 EVER DID
GOODBYE NORMA JEAN
THOUGH I NEVER
KNEW YOU AT ALL
YOU HAD THE GRACE
TO HOLD YOURSELF
WHILE THOSE
AROUND YOU CRAWLED
GOODBYE NORMA JEAN
FROM THE YOUNG MAN IN THE
TWENTY-SECOND ROW
WHO SEES YOU AS SOMETHIN'
MORE THAN SEXUAL
MORE THAN JUST
OUR MARILYN MONROE
AND IT SEEMS TO ME
YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE
LIKE A CANDLE IN THE WIND
NEVER KNOWIN'
WHO TO CLING TO
WHEN THE 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 EVER DID
YOUR CANDLE BURNED
OUT LONG BEFORE
YOUR LEGEND EVER DID