Elton John
Candle in the Wind (Original)


1. 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 a 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 know you, but I was just a kid,
your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.

2.  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

3.  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. 
    your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.