REQ: Candle in the Wind

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CANDLE IN THE WIND (Elton John & Bernie Taupin)

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 sent you on a treadmill and they made you change your name.
And it seems to me that 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 like to know you but I was just a kid,
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 dies, oh the press still hounded you,
All the papers had to say was that Marilyn was found in the nude.
And it seems to me that 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 like to know you but I was just a kid,
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.
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 a sexual,
More than just a Marilyn Monroe.
And it seems to me that 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 like to know you but I was just a kid,
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.