Candle In The Wind by Viking cowboy 2020

Elton John cover by Viking Cowboy “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 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 have known 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 Even when you died 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 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 have known 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 the young man in the 22nd 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 have known you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did Writer(s): Elton John, Bernie Taupin AZLyrics E Elton John Lyrics album: “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road“ (1973) This song was dedicated to Marilyn Monroe who died eleven years earlier. Bernie Taupin, who wrote the lyrics, said, “She was just a metaphor for fame and dying young...“ He added that the song was about “the idea of fame or youth or somebody being cut short in the prime of their life“. Bernie Taupin got the inspiration for writing this song after he had heard the phrase “candle in the wind“ used in tribute to Janis Joplin. Elton John said about this song in a Rolling Stone interview, “I was a huge Marilyn Monroe fan, as well as Elvis Presley. When you saw them, they looked like they came from another planet.“