Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played

Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all

You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled

Hollywood created a superstar and pain was the price you paid

You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled

They crawled out of the woodwork and they whispered into your brain

And even when you died, oh, the press still hounded you

Goodbye Norma Jean, from a young man in the twenty second row

They sent you on a treadmill and they made you change your name

All the papers had to say was that Marilyn was found in the nude

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've known you but I was just a kid

Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did