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