The Closest Thing to Crazy/ K Melua
Latest Chord Modification// By Mats Fagergren
2014-12-07.
Intro
[E] [B] [E/G#] [A] [E/B] [B]
Verse 1
[E] [B/F#] [E/G#]
How can I think I'm standing strong,
[A] [E]
Yet feel the air beneath my feet?
[C#m] [C#m/B] [A]
How can happiness feel so wrong?
[G#m] [B9] [E] [B]
How can misery feel so sweet?
Verse 2
[E] [B/F#] [E/G#]
How can you let me watch you sleep,
[A] [E]
Then break my dreams the way you do?
[C#m] [B] [A]
How can I have got in so deep?
[G#m] [B9] [E] [B]
Why did I fall in love with you?
Chorus
[E] [C#sus2]
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
[F#m] [B13]
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
[B7] [E] [C#sus2]
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
[F#m7] [Am(maj7)]
I was never crazy on my own...
[E] [C#m] [A] [C]
And now I know, that there's a link between the two,
[E] [C#m] [B]
Being close to craziness and being close to
[E] [B/F#] [E/G#] [Asus4] [Am] [E]
you..
Verse 3
[E] [B/F#] [E/G#]
How can you make me fall a---part
[A] [E]
Then break my fall with loving lies?
[C#m] [B] [A]
It's so easy to break a heart;
[G#m] [B9] [E] [B]
It's so easy to close your eyes.
Verse 4
[E] [B/F#] [E/G#]
How can you treat me like a child
[A] [E]
Yet like a child I yearn for you?
[C#m] [B] [A]
How can anyone feel so wild?
[G#m] [B9] [E] [B]
How can anyone feel so blue?
Chorus
[E] [C#sus2]
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
[F#m] [B13]
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
[B7] [E] [C#sus2]
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
[F#m7] [Am(maj7)]
I was never crazy on my own...
[E] [C#m] [A] [C]
And now I know, that there's a link between the two,
[E] [C#m] [B] [E] [C#m]
Being close to craziness and being close to you.
Outro
[A] [B] [E] [C#m]
And being close to you
[A] [A/B] [E]
And being close to you
[Chords]
E,A,D,G,B,e
B/F#: 2,2,4,4,4,2
E/G#: 4,7,6,4,5,4 alt. 4,x,x,4,5,4
B9; x,2,1,2,2,(2)
B13; 7,9,7,8,9,7
C#sus2; x,4,6,6,4,4
Am(maj7);5,7,6,5,5,x (or play a normal Am)...
