Intro:  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? 
 
 
CHORUS: 
              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   H
How can anyone feel so blue? 
 
CHORUS: 
              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.