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)...
Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/katie_melua/the_closest_thing_to_crazy_chords_1687734