[Verso 1]
  
E                                 A     
Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all    
              E                                           A    
You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled    
                         E                  A                        
They crawled out of the woodwork and they whispered into your brain    
                    E                                       A    
They sent you on a treadmill and they made you change your name    



[Refrão]
  
 B                                 B7    
And it seems to me you lived your life    
        E             A    
Like a candle in the wind    
        E                               B    
Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in    
       A                                         C#m    
And I would have liked to've known you but I was just a kid    
                        B                A              G#m F#m E B A G#m F$m E   
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did     


[Verso 2]
  
E                                   A     
Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played    
                     E                                    A     
Hollywood created a superstar and pain was the price you paid    
                   E             A     
And even when you died, oh, the press still hounded you    
                E                                            A     
All the papers had to say was that Marilyn was found in the nude    



[Refrão]
  
        B                          B7    
And it seems to me you lived your life    
        E             A    
Like a candle in the wind    
       E                                B    
Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in    
        A                                        C#m    
And I would have liked to've known you but I was just a kid    
                        B                A              G#m F#m E B A G#m F$m E   
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did     


[Verso 3]
  
E                                 A     
Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all    
             E                                             A     
You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled    
E                                A     
Goodbye Norma Jean, from a young man in the twenty second row    
                                     E                                    A     
Who sees you as something more than sexual, more than just our Marilyn Monroe    



[Refrão]
  
 B                                 B7    
And it seems to me you lived your life    
        E             A    
Like a candle in the wind    
        E                               B    
Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in    
       A                                         C#m    
And I would have liked to've known you but I was just a kid    
                        B                A              G#m F#m E B A G#m F$m E   
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did