The Closest Thing To Crazy

About The Closest Thing To Crazy

"The Closest Thing to Crazy" is the debut single of Georgia-born singer Katie Melua. It is featured on her hugely successful album, Call Off the Search. The song was written as part of the musical Men Who March Away, and appeared first in 1995 on Mike Batt's album Arabesque. The single was originally due out in January 2004, but was released a month early in an attempt by Terry Wogan to make it that year's Christmas number one in the United Kingdom, but it stalled at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. However, owing to the success of the album reaching number one, the song climbed back into the top 20 during January and February and resulted in Melua's first nomination for the annual Record of the Year prize on ITV1. At the end of 2004, due to its longevity on the UK chart, the song came in at number 77 on the year-end chart, making it the lowest-charting song to finish within the top 100 for that year. more »

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2012

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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

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Katie Melua

Ketevan "Katie" Melua (Georgian: ქეთევან "ქეთი" მელუა; born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian-born British singer, songwriter and musician. She moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then to England at fourteen. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she was the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist. more »

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