| E | A | |
| Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never | knew you at all |
| E | A | D | A | |
| You had the grace to | hold yourself while those around you | crawled | ------ | -- |
| E | A | |
| They crawled out of the | woodwork and they whispered | into your brain |
| E | A | D | A | |
| They sent you on a | treadmill and they made you change your | name | ------ | -- |
| Chorus: |
| B | B7 | |
| And it | seems to me you lived your | life |
| E | A | |
| Like a | candle in the | wind |
| E | B | |
| Never | knowing who to cling to when the | rain set in |
| A | E | |
| And I | would have liked to've known you but I was | just a kid |
| B | A | E | |
| Your candle burned out | long before your | legend ever did------ |
| Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played |
| Hollywood created a superstar and pain was the price you paid |
| And even when you died, oh, the press still hounded you |
| All the papers had to say was that Marilyn was found in the nude |
| 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 a young man in the twenty second row |
| Who sees you as something more than sexual, more than just our Marilyn Monroe |
| B | B7 | |
| And it | seems to me you lived your | life |
| E | A | |
| Like a | candle in the | wind |
| E | B | |
| Never | knowing who to cling to when the | rain set in |
| A | E | |
| And I | would have liked to've known you but I was | just a kid |
| B | A | E | |
| Your candle burned out | long before your | legend ever did------ |