The Closest Thing To Crazy

Album: The Closest Thing To Crazy (2003)
Charted: 10
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  • How can I think I'm standing strong?
    Yet feel the air beneath my feet
    How can happiness feel so wrong?
    How can misery feel so sweet?

    How can you let me watch you sleep?
    Then break my dreams the way you do
    How can I have got in so deep?
    Why did I fall in love with you?

    This is the closest thing to crazy
    I have ever been
    Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen
    This is the nearest thing to crazy
    I have ever known
    I was never crazy on my own
    And now I know
    That there's a link between the two
    Being close to craziness, and being close to you

    How can you make me fall apart?
    Then break my fall with loving lies
    It's so easy to break a heart
    It's so easy to close your eyes

    How can you treat me like a child?
    Yet like a child I yearn for you
    How can anyone feel so wild?
    How can anyone feel so blue?

    This is the closest thing to crazy
    I have ever been
    Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen
    This is the nearest thing to crazy
    I have ever known
    I was never crazy on my own
    And now I know
    That there's a link between the two
    Being close to craziness, and being close to you

    And being close to you
    And being close to you Writer/s: Mike Batt
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Cath from Uk,Mike, what's your interpretation of the song
  • Mike Batt from LondonPlease adjust the wording describing me as "Melua's songwriting collaborator" as we did not collaborate (as writers) on this song. Your statement that I wrote it years before I knew her is accurate. I have indeed collaborated on writing with Katie very occasionally but in the case of this song I was sole writer/producer. [Done. -editor]
  • Marika Abuladze from Kutaisi, GeorgiaShe isn't the Ukrainan-English singer, Katie Melua was born in Georgia, at the age of 8 her family moved to Beldfast, Northern Ireland and then to England.
  • Franziska from Berlin, GermanyThat is one of the most peaceful songs I've ever heard.
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