Goodbye Norma Jean
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Though I never knew you at all
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You had the grace to hold yourself
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While those around you crawled
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They crawled out of the woodwork
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And they whispered into your brain
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They set you on the treadmill
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And they made you change your name
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Chorus
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And it seems to me that you lived your life
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Like a candle in the wind
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Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in
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And I would have liked to have known you
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But I was just a kid
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Your candle burned out long before
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Your legend ever did
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Loneliness was tough
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The toughest role you ever played
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Hollywood created a superstar
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And pain was the price you paid
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Even when you died the press still hounded you
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All the papers had to say
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Was that Marilyn was found in the nude
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Goodbye Norma Jean
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Though I never knew you at all
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You had the grace to hold yourself
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While those around you crawled
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Goodbye Norma Jean
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From the young man in the twenty-second row
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Who sees you as something more than just sexual
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More than just our Marilyn Monroe
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Candle In The Wind
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| Sandy Denny |