Candle In The Wind is an Elton John song.
Statistics[edit | edit source]
- Key: E
- Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973), Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (1987), The Big Picture (1997)
- Genre: Love song
- Length: 3:47
- Year: 1974, 1987, 1997
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
1974 & 1987 versions
- Goodbye, Norma Jean
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
1973 song
Elton John - Candle In The Wind
1986 song
- 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 know 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
- All 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 know 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 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 know 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
1997 version
- Goodbye England's rose
Elton John - Candle In The Wind-0
1997 song
- May you ever grow in our hearts
- You were the grace that placed itself
- Where lives were torn apart
- You called out to our country
- And you whispered to those in pain
- Now you belong to heaven
- And the stars spell out your name
- And it seems to me you lived your life
- Like a candle in the wind
- Never fading with the sunset
- When the rain set in
- And your footsteps will always fall here
- Along England's greenest hills
- Your candle's burned out long 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
- And it seems to me you lived your life
- Like a candle in the wind
- Never fading with the sunset
- When the rain set in
- And your footsteps will always fall here
- Along England's greenest hills
- Your candle's burned our long before
- Your legend ever will
- Goodbye England's rose
- May you ever grow in our hearts
- You were the grace that placed itself
- Where lives were torn apart
- 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
- And it seems to me you lived your life
- Like a candle in the wind
- Never fading with the sunset
- When the rain set in
- And you footsteps will always fall here
- Along England's greenest hills
- Your candle's burned out long before
- Your legend ever will
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The 1997 song was to dedicate Diana, Pincess of Wales.
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