Artist: Katie Melua 
Song: The closest thing to crazy
Tabbed by: DJ
23rd Feb 2014

Tuning:Standard

CAPO: 2nd fret (Sounds in key of E)

Chord names and fret positions relative to capo:
D    = xx0232   Bm  = x23332   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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  D     A7     D            G            D/F#   A7
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |


 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?


 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?


               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...


...you!
    D     A7/E     G4     Gm
|   /  /   /  / |  /  /   /  / |

     D
e |--2----2---------------------|
B |--3-----3---/7---5---3---2---|
G |-----2-----------------------|
D |--0---------/7---5---4---2---|
A |-----------------------------|
E |-----------------------------|


 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!


 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?


               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,
Bm   G       A7sus4          D            Bm
         And being close to you----, oo---oo,oo,oo,
G      A7sus4             D
   And being close to... you!