Crazy
(K-Rose) Willie Nelson Lyrics
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I'm crazy crazy for feeling so blue
I knew that you'd love me as long as you wanted
And then some day you'd leave me for somebody new
Worry, why do I let myself worry
Wondering what in the world did I do
I'm crazy for thinking that my love could hold you
And I'm crazy for loving you
I'm crazy for thinking that my love could hold you
I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying
And I'm crazy for loving you
In this song, Willie Nelson sings about the feelings of loneliness, sadness, and heartbreak associated with a failed relationship. He describes the feeling of being "crazy" for loving someone who has left him for somebody new. He knew that they would love him for a while, but he never expected that it would end so soon. He questions himself, wondering what he did wrong to deserve this treatment. He also admits that his love for this person was so strong that it drove him to try to hold onto them, despite knowing it was a losing battle. In the end, he concludes that he is "crazy for loving" them despite their unfaithfulness.
Overall, the song is a melancholic and introspective reflection on love, loss, and heartbreak. The lyrics express the universal human experience of unrequited love and the emotional pain that comes with it. The combination of Nelson's emotive voice, the slow-paced tempo, and the simple instrumentation of the guitar and piano create a somber mood that complements the lyrics perfectly.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so lonely
I am feeling overwhelmingly lonely and I know it is irrational.
I'm crazy crazy for feeling so blue
My sadness is consuming me and it feels like madness.
I knew that you'd love me as long as you wanted
I understood that your affection for me had limits.
And then some day you'd leave me for somebody new
I always anticipated the inevitable end to our relationship.
Worry, why do I let myself worry
I am constantly caught up in anxiety and cannot seem to shake it off.
Wondering what in the world did I do
I am questioning what I did that caused you to leave me.
I'm crazy for thinking that my love could hold you
I was foolish to believe that my love alone could keep you by my side.
I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying
My attempts to hold onto you and my tears are evidence of my irrationality.
And I'm crazy for loving you
Despite everything, I cannot help but still love you.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Willie Nelson
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@awsometomable
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@stevieray56
Once a song becomes a widely recognized hit, its popularity can seem virtually inevitable. How could that song not have been a hit?
Certainly that would seem to be the case with “Crazy,” the country standard written by Willie Nelson and recorded definitively by Patsy Cline for Decca Records in 1961. Cline’s hit recording swings with such velvety finesse, and her voice throbs and aches so exquisitely, that the entire production sounds absolutely effortless. Actually, it was anything but.
Start with the songwriter. Today Willie Nelson is universally acclaimed as both a singer and a songwriter. But when he arrived in Nashville from Texas in 1960, the 27-year-old ex-DJ and bar musician was a household name only at his own kitchen table. Although his talent was obvious, many in the country music business thought his style was simply too offbeat and artsy for the charts.
“I enjoyed fooling around with the phrasing,” Willie has said, “but it made my sound noncommercial for all those Nashville ears who were listening for the same old stuff and misunderstood anything original.” Nelson also tended to write melodies that were more complex than the standard country fare. “I had problems immediately with my song ‘Crazy’ because it had four or five chords in it,” he recalled. “Not that ‘Crazy’ is real complicated; it just wasn’t your basic three-chord country hillbilly song.”
Two people who believed in Willie from the beginning were songwriter Hank Cochran and Grand Ole Opry star Billy Walker. Cochran got Willie a $50 a week draw as a staff writer at Pamper Music shortly after he arrived in Nashville, while Walker quickly recorded Willie’s “Funny How Time Slips Away” and talked Willie up with other artists. One of them happened to be fellow Grand Ole Opry cast member Patsy Cline.
Then 28 years old and coming off her first No. 1 hit (“I Fall to Pieces”) after six years of ups and downs in the music industry, Cline did not quickly warm to “Crazy.” She much preferred “Funny How Time Slips Away,” but Walker kept that one for himself. “Crazy” must have seemed like the consolation prize. However, when Hank Cochran pitched “Crazy” to Owen Bradley, Cline’s producer, he was quickly sold-which just goes to show what great ears Owen Bradley had.
The demo (which can be heard on Willie Nelson’s Demo Sessions CD) was slow and syrupy. Willie’s phrasing was all over the place-sometimes ahead of the beat, sometimes behind it, stretching syllables out or biting them short. Sometimes he was closer to reciting the lyrics than singing them. Yet somehow Owen Bradley heard a potential hit in that.
Patsy Cline, however, did not. Although Bradley persuaded her to try the song at his Quonset Hut studio on August 21, 1961, she could not get a handle on it during four-hour session. Part of Patsy’s difficulty may have been that she had been in a horrific auto accident just two months before in which she was badly banged up. When she came into the studio, she was on crutches. It may have hurt to hit certain notes. There were other difficulties as well.
“In addition to Patsy’s injury,” says Harold Bradley, the Country Music Hall of Fame guitarist and Owen’s brother, “the other thing that made this session hard was that my brother would refine the track as we went along. There was no written music for ‘Crazy.’ So Owen would come out of the control room and say, ‘Why don’t you guys try this?'”
After four hours, Owen Bradley and Nashville’s A Team pickers nailed the song. Where Willie’s demo had wobbled boozily, Bradley’s arrangement swung in a lush, sophisticated way. However, it still lacked a lead vocal. That came three weeks later, on September 15, when Patsy overdubbed a pitch-perfect emotional performance in a single take.
Only a month later Patsy wrote to a friend: “They say ‘Crazy’ is a smash. . . . Music Reporter has it top 30 C & W already & Music Vender has it already in pop & C & W charts. I’m real glad but can’t hardly believe it’s happening to me.” It would go on to reach No. 2 in Billboard‘s country chart and No. 9 pop. More significantly, of course, it’s become a standard, covered by such luminaries as Loretta Lynn, Linda Ronstadt, Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall . . . and Willie Nelson himself, who has had the good sense to lean heavily on Patsy Cline and Owen Bradley’s masterful arrangement ever since.
@thegloriouspyrocheems2277
Driving through the countryside of the great San Andreas on a Wayfarer and listening to this.Where are those times?
@kennydobbins9644
I'm just enjoying the song without any of that.
@TheKid266
Amen Brother
@malcolmfreeman7370
Miran Kohnić haha goodtimes 👍
@HMNummi
Golden times.
@Vincent_Pilsen
I preefer a Rancher, a Tanker or a Benson
@ishanganjoo
i loved K Rose.... childhood.... :/
@mars1936
***** Me too, Bro... :(
@kaiarachi
And that fucking pleasant woman's voice sounds like Texas woman
@theelegantassassin1174
PROBAK I'm only 19 and I know I still have my whole life in front of me, but I still can't help but feel like it's all gonna pass by in an instant and it will be too late when I realise that. And I know I won't ever be able to enjoy this kind of music like I used to when I was a care free kid.