Candle in the wind

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 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've known you but I was just a kid

Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did

Other verses:

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

Candle in the wind 1997 - Elton John tribute to Princess Diana

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Goodbye England's rose may you ever grow in our hearts. You were

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the grace that placed itself where liver were torn apart. You called out

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our country, and you whispered to those in pain. Now you belong to

heaven,

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and the stars spell out your name. And it

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seems to me you lived your life Like a candel in the wind never

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fading withe the sun-set when the rain set in. And your

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footsteps will always fall here,among England's greenest hills; your candle's

burned out long

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before your legend ever will.

Loveliness we've lost; these empty days without your smile.

This torch we'll always carry for our nation's golden child.

And even though we try, the truth brings us to tears;

all our words cannot express the joy you brought us through the years.

Goodbye England's rose, from a country lost without your soul,

who'll miss the wings of your compassion more than you'll ever know.