Song: The closest thing to crazy
Artist: Katie Melua
Album: Call off the search
Composer: Mike Batt
Tabbed by: DJ
23rd Feb 2014
CAPO: 2nd fret (Sounds in key of E)
Chord names and fret positions relative to the capo:
D = xx0232 Bm = x24432 Bb = x13331
A7 = x02020 A = x02220 G4 = 355533 or 320013
G = 320033 F#m = 244222 Gm = 355333
A7/E = 002020 D/A = x00232 A7sus4 = x02030
D/F# = 200232 Em7 = 022030
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[Intro]
D A7 D G D/F# A7
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[Verse 1]
D A7/E D/F#
How can I think I'm standing strong,
G D
Yet feel the air beneath my feet?
Bm A G
How can happiness feel so wrong?
F#m A7 D A7
How can misery feel so sweet?
[Verse 2]
D A7/E D/F#
How can you let me watch you sleep,
G D
Then break my dreams the way you do?
Bm A G
How can I have got in so deep?
F#m A7 D A7
Why did I fall in love with you?
[Chorus]
D Bm
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been,
Em7 D/A A
Feeling twenty two, acting seventeen-------,
D Bm
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
Em7 Gm
I was never crazy on my own,
D Bm G Bb
And now I know... that there's a link between the two,
D Bm A7
Being close to craziness, and being close to...
D A7/E G4 Gm
...you!
| / / / / | / / / / |
D
e |--2----2---------------------|
B |--3-----3---/7---5---3---2---|
G |-----2-----------------------|
D |--0---------/7---5---4---2---|
A |-----------------------------|
E |-----------------------------|
[Verse 3]
D A7/E D/F#
How can you make me fall a - part,
G D
Then break my fall with loving lies?
Bm A G
It's so easy to break a heart,
F#m A D A7
It's so easy to close your eyes!
[Verse 4]
D A7/E D/F#
How can you treat me like a child?
G D
Yet, like a child, I yearn for you!
Bm A G
How can anyone feel so wild?
F#m A D A7
How can anyone feel so blue?
[Chorus]
D Bm
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been,
Em7 D/A A
Feeling twenty two, acting seventeen-------,
D Bm
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
Em7 Gm
I was never crazy on my own,
D Bm G Bb
And now I know... that there's a link between the two,
D Bm A7 D
Being close to craziness, and being close to you!
[Coda]
Bm G A7sus4 D Bm
And being close to you----, oo---oo,oo,oo,
G A7sus4 D
And being close to... you!
