Tom: E
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?
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 B
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.
