D# G# Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all D# G# You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled D# They crawled out of the woodwork and they whispered G# into your brain D# G# They sent you on a treadmill and they made you change your name Chorus: A# A#7 And it seems to me you lived your life D# G# Like a candle in the wind D# A# Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in G# Cm And I would have liked toʼve known you but I was just a kid A# G# D# Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did D# G# Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played D# G# Hollywood created a superstar and pain was the price you paid D# G# And even when you died, oh, the press still hounded you D# G# All the papers had to say was that Marilyn was found in the nude D# G# Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all D# G# You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled D# G# Goodbye Norma Jean, from a young man in the twenty second row D# Who sees you as something more than sexual, more G# than just our Marilyn Monroe
