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Closest Thing To Crazy

Key: E

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
          E    B    E      A    E    B  
E                         B                                                 E  
How can I think I'm standing strong,
             A                                                            E  
Yet feel the air beneath my feet?
C#m                                    B                 A  
How can happiness feel so wrong?
G#m                              B              E              B  
How can misery feel so sweet?
E                      B                                         E  
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                                 B                      E         B  
Why did I fall in love with you?
                                     E                                                                      C#m  
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
                     F#m                                         B  
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
                                  E                                                                         C#m  
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
                  F#m                    A  
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    B    E      A    C    E  
Being close to craziness and being close to you.
  E                      B                                 E  
How can you make me fall apart
                  A                                                              E  
Then break my fall with loving lies?
C#m                                 B              A  
It's so easy to break a heart 
G#m                                      A                    E            B  
It's so easy to close your eyes.
E                                 B                                      E  
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                                 A                    E  
How can anyone feel so blue?
                                     E                                                                      C#m  
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
                     F#m                                         B  
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
                                  E                                                                         C#m  
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
                  F#m                    A  
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    A  
Being close to craziness and being close to you.
                  B                                 E    C#m    A  
...and being close to you
             B                                    E  
and being close to you.

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