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To: jamesb@nevada.edu
Subject: Crazy (Acoustic Mix) by Seal
Crazy (Acoustic Mix), by Seal, from the maxi-single "Crazy."
The song is simple, all chords probably played in first position, except
perhaps the A chord, which might sound better as 077650.
E		      G
A man decides after seventy years
A
That what he goes there for, is to unlock the door
E			G			(Fill 1)	A
While those around him criticize and sleep
E			   G
And through a fractal on a breaking wall
A
I see you my friend, and touch your face again
E			G
Miracles will happen as we dream
C			G  	D
But we're never gonna survive unless
A
We get a little crazy			[repeat last two lines]
That's all the music; here's my attempt at the second verse from memory:
All the people walking through my head
One of them's got a gun
To shoot the other one
And yet together they were friends at school
But of four were [?] there when we first took the pill
They'll be back, be back, baby
Miracles will happen as we sleep
At this point the acoustic version cuts out; a voice enters:
Behold, here cometh the Dreamer
What will become of his dreams?
But you could just move gracefully back to the chorus... :-)
klaw
law2@husc.harvard.edu
PS please drop me a line if you use this - i like to know that my work isn't for
naught. :-)

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/s/seal/357822.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Renee Wanna Be	#1 by Renee Saenz at Jul 14, 1974 at 5:42 PM EST
	i love this song

No Picture Dylan Average	#2 by Dylan Ruiz at Jul 26, 1975 at 2:03 AM EST
	I definitely do not think that this song is about drugs. It's not clichéed enough

No Picture Berenice Average	#3 by Berenice Issaris at Jul 13, 1976 at 5:26 AM EST
	ok, so he said Pill once or twice in the song, its definately about drugs (sarcasam) I think its about the many people in this world that are too afraid to take risks, and that is crazy... and also about how we need to take risks in our lives in order to live. I have always said this quote, and it goes something like this: "One that has truly never lived can truly never die" and I think seal is trying to say that through this song.

No Picture Jimmy Rhythm Player	#4 by Jimmy at Dec 13, 1979 at 10:15 PM EST
	This song has the most amazing sense of enigma and the unknown.

No Picture I fought the la Average	#5 by I fought the law and the law kicked my ass I never learn do i...?? at Jan 18, 1980 at 10:34 AM EST
	you're all pretty much wrong about this song. the song was released around 1989 and is about various things that happened in the world at that time. the lyrics "And through a fractal on a breaking wall, I see you my friend, and touch your face again" is a referance to the berlin wall coming down. i don't know about the other lyrics but they most likely refer to world events around that time. they're may be a slight reference to drugs in there as the acid house scene was big in 1988 and 1989. anyway it's a great song.

No Picture Vinny Average	#6 by Vinny Spano at Oct 4, 1981 at 7:22 AM EST
	Ok, ok, that mushy stuff having been said, what's it about? It sounds like drugs to me. Maybe he cut that out of his life when he cut his locks? Idunno. Sounds cool tho'. . . as well as the rest of the album.

No Picture jake Average	#7 by jake battkoo at Oct 12, 1981 at 7:37 AM EST
	Addressed to Sophie Something and Phoenix6475 "And through a fractal on a breaking wall, I see you my friend, and touch your face again. Miracles will happen as we trip." -Seeing things in patterns right before directly mentioning tripping "Crazy yellow people walking through my head." -Might not mean anything, but still hints "If all were there when we first took the pill," -What comes in pill form besides some type of drug? Evidence seems to be very strong that the song at the very least mentions drugs

No Picture wrath Average	#8 by wrath child at Aug 15, 1985 at 5:32 AM EST
	Not at all sure if this is true... Yellow people walking through my head... might it be something like Vietnam? People (of the same race, perhaps even from the same family) killing each other over communist and anti-communist ideals? I know in the American Civil War, brothers were known to join the two separate armies, so that is what I think of...

No Picture Robyn Average	#9 by Robyn Paul at Aug 22, 1994 at 2:11 AM EST
	this is a great song

No Picture Daniel Average	#10 by Daniel Gordon at Aug 15, 1998 at 11:13 PM EST
	wow

No Picture Jon Lead Player	#11 by Jon Zell at Jan 17, 2000 at 5:15 AM EST
	his best song

No Picture Gladis Wanna Be	#12 by Gladis McHumphry at Oct 16, 2000 at 11:02 AM EST
	For me, this song helped me realize that there are so many people in the world that have so much potential, but people rarly use it becasue they are afraid to fly. I think Seal is saying, everyone needs to start getting a little bit crazy, taking more chances, making mistakes, but living life to the max!

No Picture Will Average	#13 by Will Yost at Nov 24, 2001 at 6:03 AM EST
	Some would argue that you have never fully lived untill you have done drugs, partically acid, which i think this song is about.

No Picture Jason Rhythm Player	#14 by Jason ...... at Sep 16, 2003 at 9:06 AM EST
	Seal is my one love, my one life. Whenever I wake up in the dark of the night, his face on my wall is always there to soothe me back to sleep. hes a great man.

No Picture Mike Average	#15 by Mike Murphy at Nov 16, 2003 at 4:22 PM EST
	I just thought it was about insanity in general, but it's always easier when you can read the lyrics. starfaery, you're probably right, even if you went the long way round about proving it.

No Picture Jaime Average	#16 by Jaime at Sep 30, 2007 at 5:36 AM EST
	LIFE IS CRAZY BUT FOR ME IT IS TRUE INSANITY. LOL one day

No Picture Alex Wanna Be	#17 by Alex Jurek at Sep 30, 2007 at 9:58 PM EST
	why does every song have to be about drugs? ;) i think this song, as wyldroza said, is about people that are afraid to fly. "In a world full of people there's only some want to fly, Isn't that crazy? " just said it right there

No Picture hamadi Wanna Be	#18 by hamadi alameddine at Oct 2, 2007 at 8:18 AM EST
	the band mushroomhead did a cover of this song and it did very much justice to this song long live covers...well the good ones!

No Picture Renee Wanna Be	#19 by Renee Saenz at Oct 7, 2007 at 7:20 AM EST
	Totally agree with it being his best song. I heard this one day on TV and haddd to have ittt The lyrics are amazing!!!

No Picture Corey Average	#20 by Corey La Plante at Oct 7, 2007 at 8:24 PM EST
	Parts of these lyrics are vague enough that it's easy to interpret them in any number of different ways. For my own life, I go for the living up to potential and taking risks interpretation. "In a church, by the face, He talks about the people going under." Reference to a pastor speaking at funerals, trying to come up with something good (and true) to say about the dead. I've been to more than my fair share of funerals lately, and it's interesting to consider what your own funeral will be like when you die. Will people miss you? Will you have done anything worthwhile with your life? Or will your life seem like a waste to the people who listen to the pastor struggle to find something good to say? "Only child know..." Young children know how to take risks! They're not afraid of what other people think of them. They don't hide their feelings. They're just out there giving it their all, trying, tripping and falling down, getting up and trying again. "A man decides after 70 years, That what he goes there for, is to unlock the door. While those around him criticize and sleep..." Reference to the same pastor from above, wondering if people are getting anything out of his sermons. Wondering if he's making any difference in their lives. Wondering if he'll have anything good to say at their funeral. THEN THE SONG SWITCHES FROM 3rd PERSON TO 1st PERSON.... "...Crazy yellow people walking through my head. One of them's got a gun, to shoot the other one. And yet together they were friends at school." Referencing the two personalities in each of us, with competing desires for FREEDOM and SECURITY...work a job for the rest of our lives, or be an entrepreneur, risking it all, possibly getting rich, or possibly going broke. When in school, we were idealistic and thought we could have both Security & Freedom. Later in life, for most people, Security gets a gun and tries to kill our dreams of Freedom. In some ways, each of these desires can have a "yellow" (cowardly) side to them. It's obvious how killing our dreams and going only for security can be seen as a bit cowardly. But that's one-sided. It takes courage to be a good employee. People sometimes are forced to quit their job because they allowed their entrepreneurial dreams to go too far. They fail to excel in their job because they're too prideful (cowardly) to make amends with their boss. They end up going out own their own when they should have swallowed their pride and learned how to deal with personalities in the work place. When they go out on their own, trying to be an entrepreneur, they discover some harsh realities. "If all were there when we first took the pill, then maybe......" The pill of RESPONSIBILITY, often taken when we move out on our own, forces us to choose between Freedom and Security. If "all were there" and we were lucky enough to have some help and support when we first took the pill of RESPONSIBILITY, then maybe, maybe we can have both Freedom and Security. At any rate, "miracles will happen as we trip, ....as we speak." We've got to start taking risks. And we've got to promote ourselves. We're sure to fall on our face...probably a lot. But as we persist, miracles will begin to happen. "Through a fractal on a breaking wall, I see you my friend, and touch your face again." Reference to a person reuniting with his/her dreams, that may have been long-lost. I think this song is about someone reconciling within the needs for Freedom and Security. It sounds like Freedom was the outcast, and is now being allowed back in, reviving the dreamer. This person is choosing to let both co-exist and making a decision to get out of their comfort zone & go for it. "get a little crazy" Speaks of taking risks, doing things we aren't 100% sure of. Also speaks of giving 110%...like William Wallace in Brave Heart. Show me your meanest looking WAR face!AAARRRRRRGGHHH! Now go out there and kick some butt!

No Picture Stephen Average	#21 by Stephen Weber at Oct 14, 2007 at 12:23 AM EST
	The church made up hell, and the idea that people were lost "people going under" in order to prevent people from "flying" being free, and indoctrinate them, by making up this mask "by the face" in order to scare people into their way, and to controle them But only a child can see the truth, it's only when we become "domesticated" that we lose the truth. "only child know" The man in the church, or nonconformist, realizes what he's doing is wrong, and want to free the people "unlock the door" to the truth. But by then people are alreaddy brainwashed, therefore they critisise him while they're staying ignorant. "sleeping" But when we begin to see through the wall, that makes us believe we're separated. We recognice eachother again, and see that we are in fact one, like we once did. We love again. Once we're willing to trip, and get crazy, and think outside of the norm, that's when mirachles will happen. So if we refuse to get crazy, and take the leap, we're gonna destroy ourselves, in the end. The crazy yellow walking through your head can be interpetated as the child. yellow represents childishness, playfullness, silliness, at school they get indoctrinised, and domesticated to be rational adults instead, and so they're eager to become adults, and thus they die. You'r childishnes dies, when you try to grow up. But if the crazy yellow people refused to take the pill to fix us into conformity, then the mirachles would have happened instead. Amanda conforms after 17 years, when school is over. She's brainwashed. Only few people dare to question everything and fly, they're crazy But it's often the ridiculed and those who dare to think outside the norm, who's speaking the truth(for instance people who got burned for claiming the earth was round). We'll never survive if we don't eventually begin to take them seriously, and get crazy like them. That's when you will start to see things in a bigger perspective, you never imagined, or knew about. The flyers "children" are gonna break the limitated way we have been brainwashed to think. One day. Anyways, I think it's about breaking away from the norm, away from how to think, wear, act, so you can get a mind of your own, find your own spirituallity rather than religion, and then fly again like you used to before western society interviened.

No Picture Chad Wanna Be	#22 by Chad Barri at Oct 14, 2007 at 9:11 PM EST
	this song for me is deeply spiritual. When I think of this song I think of the way my own consciousness has expanded as well as humanity's collective consciousness. When I hear this song I think about the fact that people are becoming more aware of their own souls. I get so spiritually high listening to this song and thinking about where humans have been, are now, and are going. line by line: A man decides after seventy years, That what he goes there for, is to unlock the door. This man is going to church to "unlock the door" - the Doors of thr 60s taught us about opening our "doors of perception," and this too is what church is intended to do, in spite of those around him who "criticize and sleep" I don't think the tripping and the fractals and stuff has to be interpreted specifically as acid or drugs. I definitely believe he's talking about the expansion of consciousness, but it need not necessarily be driven through LSD. In the first line, "only child know" harkens to a famous line by Jesus that says something like "you must make yourself as a child if you want to enter the kingdom of heaven." it sort of also reminds me of that famous line by Wordsworth: "Child is the father of the man" (this was also found in Brian Wilson's previously unreleased album, Smile). -- If children are first souls that have not yet come down from heaven, they are closer to God, the "father," than a man on earth who has been away from Heaven for man years. So here's what I think: I think Seal is talking about what Alan Watts called "cosmic conscisousness," a phrase that has been echoed by a number of new agers and gurus. Watts and his contemporaries, including Richard Alpert (Ram Dass of "Be Here Now") believe that Jesus experienced cosmic consciousness, a sudden burst of consciousness that caused him to believe that he was God -- not invalid, because Watts says that we all inhabit the potential for greater consciousness. But these gurus were in the 60s and 70s. More and more people are developing this cosmic consciousness, I believe, and I think it's reflected in Seal's 1991 lyrics. Check this out: Listen to the way he talks about "And then you see things The size Of which you've never known before." And I'm not sure entirely what to think of the pill, but I am convinced it's not literal. Think of the idea of instantaneous transformation, and perhaps even the idea of Adam and Eve's transgression of eating the forbidden fruit. I believe this a song about humanity, and I think someone might have been right when they mentioned the idea of the Berlin wall coming down. Another major event that happened that year (i think) was the massacre at Tianamen Square in China led by a group of pro-capitalist students: "Crazy yellow people walking through my head. One of them's got a gun, to shoot the other one. And yet together they were friends at school Ohh, get it, get it, get it, get it no no!" just a guess. but I get pretty moved by this song. it makes the hair on my hair stand up every time.

No Picture jacob Average	#23 by jacob ap at Oct 17, 2007 at 5:36 PM EST
	It sounds to me like drugs. "Miracles will happen as we trip" and "If I was there when we first took the Pill" But it's not as simple as that. It's kind of about how every now and then, you just have to escape reality. And, like in the first verse, the others criticize his drug use which he uses to unlock a door to an alternate reality. But at the same time it's dangerous, and can even turn friends agaist eachother "One of them's got a gun, to shoot the other one. And yet together they were friends at school." But somtimes it seems like you just can't get through life unless you find some way to escape, to get away from the reality, to get a little crazy.