The Closest Thing To Crazy --Melua Songs

The melodies, lyrics, and singing of these two Katie Melua songs will take you to the land of memory and imagination. They let you re-unite with yourself and yet reach out to another person. Here I can only provide the lyrics.

The Closest Thing To Crazy

How can I think I'm standing strong, Yet feel the air beneath my feet? How can happiness feel so wrong? How can misery feel so sweet?

How can you let me watch you sleep, Then break my dreams the way you do? How can I have got in so deep? Why did I fall in love with you?

[Chorus]

This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been. Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen. This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known. But I was never crazy on my own. And now I know that there's a link between the two, Being close to craziness, and being close to you

How can you let me fall apart? Then break my fall with loving lies? It's so easy to break a heart; It's so easy to close your eyes.

How can you treat me like a child, Yet like a child I yearn for you? How can anyone feel so wild? How can anyone feel so blue?

Tiger In The Night

You are the tiger burning bright
Deep in the forest of my night
You are the one who keeps me strong in this world

You sleep by the silent cooling streams
Down in the darkness of my dreams
All of my life I never knew
You were the dream I'd see come true
You are the tiger burning bright

I was the one who looked so hard I could not see.
Now I could never live without the love you give to me.

I lived like a wild and lonely soul,
Lost in a dream beyond control.
You were the one who brought me home down to earth.

For you are the tiger burning bright
Deep in the forest of my night
All of my life I never knew
You were the dream I'd see come true
You are the tiger burning bright