The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38398   Message #539381
Posted By: catspaw49
31-Aug-01 - 08:53 PM
Thread Name: OBIT: Generic Obituary Thread
Subject: ADD: Goodbye Norma Jean (Elton John)
GOODBYE NORMA JEAN

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 the 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 known you but I was just 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
Even when you died, the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say, was Marilyn was found in the nude

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 known you but I was just 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 the young man in the twenty-second row
Who sees you as something more than sexual, more than just our Marilyn Monroe

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 known you but I was just kid
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did

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Best song the little SOB ever wrote and I really hated it when he modified it for Diana.

Spaw