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| Goodbye Norma Jean, though I neve | r knew you at all |
| E | A |
| You had the grace to hold | yourself while those around you crawled |
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| E | A |
| They crawled out of the w | oodwork and they whispered | into your brain |
| E | A |
| They sent you on a tread | mill and they made you change your name |
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| B | B7 |
| And it seems to me you lived your li | fe |
| E | A |
| Like a c | andle in the wind |
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| E | B |
| Never kn | owing who to cling to when the r | ain set in |
| A | C#m |
| And I would | have liked to've known you but I was ju | st a kid |
| B | A | E |
| Your candle burned out lo | ng before your l | egend ever did |
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| 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
