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   Your legend ever did      Lonlyness was tough   The toughest role you ever played   Hollywood created a superstar   And pain was the price you paid   Even when you died   Oh the press still hounded you   All the papers had to say   Was that Marilyn was found in the nude      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   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 22nd row   Who sees you as something as more than sexual   More than just our Marilyn Monroe      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   Your legend ever did