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 knowing 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 the legend ever did       Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played    Hollywood created a superstar    And pain was the price you paid    Even when you died, all 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 knowing 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 the 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 22nd row    Who sees you as something 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 knowing 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 the legend ever did       Your candle burned out long before the legend ever did