Key: C
Introduction: C G C F C G
C G C
How can I think I'm standing strong,
F C
Yet feel the air beneath my feet?
Am G F
How can happiness feel so wrong?
Em G C G
How can misery feel so sweet?
C G C
How can you let me watch you sleep,
F C
Then break my dreams the way you do?
Am G F
How can I have got in so deep?
Em G C G
Why did I fall in love with you?
C Am
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Dm G
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
C Am
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
Dm F
I was never crazy on my own.
C Am F Ab
And now I know that there's a link between the two,
C Am G C G C F Ab C
Being close to craziness and being close to you.
C G C
How can you make me fall apart
F C
Then break my fall with loving lies?
Am G F
It's so easy to break a heart
Em F C G
It's so easy to close your eyes.
C G C
How can you treat me like a child
F C
Yet like a child I yearn for you?
Am G F
How can anyone feel so wild?
Em F C
How can anyone feel so blue?
C Am
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Dm G
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
C Am
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
Dm F
I was never crazy on my own.
C Am F Ab
And now I know that there's a link between the two,
C Am G C Am F
Being close to craziness and being close to you.
G C Am F
...and being close to you
G C
and being close to you.
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