Name: Candle In The Wind
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Channel: Bernie Taupin / Elton John
Description: "Candle In The Wind" is a song by DuPunktoKvin. Another one of the great Taupin/John hits from the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album (1973), in memory of Marilyn Monroe.

Candle In The Wind

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Another one of the great Taupin/John hits from the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album (1973), in memory of Marilyn Monroe.

classic rock cover

DuPunktoKvin

Classic rock cover

Hello World!, I say WELCOME. I'm a 57 years old classic rock fan and musician. For the most part I only do covers of classic rock and folk songs but am known from slipping in an occasional ballad or instrumental here and there too.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Cover Songs

Charts

Peak #293

Peak in subgenre #39

Author

Bernie Taupin / Elton John

Rights

Bernie Taupin / Elton John

Uploaded

August 21, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:42

Story behind the song

I've had this one in the back burner for a long while and not until today I found it in my library and started to work on it again. I was in a rather lazy mood to say the least, but as I started to listen to the basic tracks done a LONG time ago I begun to tinker with one, then another, then another until I saw myself lifted with the music.

This is just a humble homage to an awesome song written by Bernie Taupin and musicalized and interpreted as only Elton John can.

Music to the rescue :-)

Lyrics

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

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