Comments: 25

• Ryan from EnglandNon duality explained
• Bcd from KsThe first time I heard this song ,I figured it's about mental health and how we perceive it's chaos and beauty. Now when I listen to it, the meaning (for me at least)has changed to what it is like to go through an awakening of ones soul...the "losing your mind" and realizing you were never in control. Perhaps the realizing it is all happening as it should and you have to "die in order to truly live". With this awakening the people you know see you as being "out of touch" but no longer because you "don't know enough....you know too much". Until they go through their awakening...you look like your crazy. In your heart...you know...someday they will be "crazy" too....just like you..... probably.
• Rollo from Come And SeeCrazy is about childhood trauma and the places ones mind goes during extreme abuse. Its about loss at its deepest level. Its about remembering but not being able to do a thing about it, as if drawn along a thread Stretched out over time that you must walk yet you never want to go.
  If they had told the truth I would have given them more, but a lie hurts us all, so you got your score.
  Just remember: The children are here to remind us that the future is ever behind us... It no mystery, all you can see is history, the children will always remind us.
  Gnarls
• AnonymousIs it not about lucifer becoming the devil?
• Beau from United StatesIt is hard to believe that Ceelo hasn't gone through a death experience, or listened someone who has. This song is a fair description of how it feels to die. Each verse relates to a separate aspect of death. The chorus speaks to the feeling of being crazy afterwards, you can't tell anyone about your experience without seeming crazy.
• Chelsea from CanadaThis song, I feel, is a deep dive into the mind of a "crazy" person. He finally feels woke and understands the secret systems woven into our society but, alas, his unwelcome and complex thoughts and ideas are rejected, by the decidedly ignorant person who deems them as "absurd", thus questioning if he's really figuring things out or if his mind is unwravelling.
  
  My dad works as a psychiatrist and is very familiar with mental illness and the various states of mind. I once asked him if a crazy person knows if they're crazy. And he responded by telling me how important it is to be insightful and to listen to those around you. If others believe you to be irrational, a danger, or threat to the collective consumerisctic ideals of society that have been placed on a pedestool by the powers that be, you must listen to them. It's a battle in your mind between believing what others are telling you and deciphering if you can even truly believe yourself.
• Aus from Berlin/ukI'm a classical music follower but this song has come to strike me as brilliant. This song works on multiple levels, as true art does.
  
  1) Theres the literal meaning, which the writers autobiographical comments back up: anyone who thinks they are in control of their lives is a fool when so many unconscious influences govern our actions.
  
  2), Given "1", people who call others crazy are fools who don't realise they are the same basically, just some peoples unconscious programming makes them act odd while for most it makes them conform, but neither case is being in control. Hence the line, "I think you're crazy, just like you".
  
  3) As others have said, it reflects how everyone is "mind controlled" one way or another (see "1" and "2"" above). But I don't buy the "conspiracy theory" of some mysterious cabal in control, everyone is part of the same whirlpool of unconscious influence and therefore even people who try to be in control are really in the same boat. We exist in a world of influence in which nobody and nothing is ever really in control.
  
  The words are minimal, to the point, elegant. What's more, unlike shed-loads of pop music, it does not rely on copying a classical tune for a base.
  
  The video was a brilliant idea, as the song itself is like a Rorschach test. We can read ourselves into it and interpretations reflect our thoughts just like that ink blot test.
  
  Personally, I was originally exposed to the song pumped repeatedly round a department store whenever I was in there. The riff was catchy. I didn't pay attention to it. Years later, when I was in the midst of a difficult time in my relationship with Berlin I had arrived back from the UK one night, unsure I should even be there. There was a busker singing it at the Warshauer Strasse U. An excellent performer as they usually are at that prime location for it. It was dusk over the city. Everything was blue. Instantly the Fernsehturm blinking in the distance, everything clicked. I was home again. It felt like destiny, as the song says: "Its no coincidence I've arrived, and I can die when I'm done".
  
  "Does that make me crazy...possibly".
  
  Since then I've listened to it repeatedly and written this, my first ever comment on a song.
• Chet from Honolulu, HiI had never heard this song on youtube. It closed out the first video of the fictitious blogger, lonelygirl15. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-goXKtd6cPo
• Luciano from Denver, CoSounds to me like the songs about government mind control, and how the populace has become stupid droning zombies, and he himself was once part of the droning mind controlled crowd until he broke free and got his mind back. I mean its nice being a mind controlled zombie, so nice that we all ask for it everyday!!!
• Randy from Portage, Incee-lo's voice reminds me alot of Al Green's
• Valerie from Eureka, CaI just LOVE the song maybe because I can relate to it in too many ways.
• Marcus from Fresno, Cathe first time i saw the video for Crazy, i had just smoked from a vaporizer and i was tripping balls. this song is bad ass.
• Brady from Niagara Falls, NyJust posted a comment on the first song I ever remember; "Linda" from 1947. From Sinatra to Lonnie Donegan to Elvis to Beatles, Hendricks,
  Joel, Madonna, U2 and now Gnarls...The beat goes on Thank You Song Facts for the joy you bring to my life.
• Kristie from Hackettstown, NjThis song is very Zen. To be in a state that your "mind" does not control you--instead you control your mind is to be in a HIGHER state. Reading the lyrics from a Zen point of view, they aren't so crazy...
• Roberta from Carleton, MiI agree with Dean of Sydney
• Dean from Sydney,Great song. A glimmer of hope that tells me not to write off contemporary music all together.
• Aimee from Ughville, MaIt's pretty much saying that the least sane people are the ones who think they're just fine.
• Carol from Newport News, United StatesThe song can mean anything depending on their own experiences and state of mind. The lyrics are great!
• Robert from Merced, CaI thought that this song was about about falling into street/drug culture as an adolescent. It just strikes me in that way.
• Joe from Chicago, Arkool song.......the rest of the album isn't as good though in my opinion which is defintly a shame and a waist of 20 bucks on my part
• Margaret from Buffalo Mills, PaI thought this was about soaring in a glider plane "out there, without a care, yeah I was out of touch." People think you're crazy for riding the air waves like an eagle in a plane with no engine, but I think you're crazy if you don't try it! I claim this song for the sail plane pilots of the world!
• Bobodabanka from Paris, FranceThis song actually hit the top of the charts in France during last summer which was also when the french soccer team got in the world cup finals. I know it might sound 'crazy', but it is exactly what the french champion Zinedine Zidane could have said to the italian player Materazzi just after he hit him. Read the lyrics again, be my guest, and get inside a 'crazy' man's brain!
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaI always thought this was about a war veteran going crazy after what he saw.
• Wik from Brooklyn, NyYes! Danger Mouse is getting to 'stack cheese', while EMI is getttting what they deserve for blocking the release of the 'Grey Album' a few years back.
• Ryan from Austin, TxGreat song. Can't wait to see them @ ACL in Austin this year.

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