Cantora e compositora nascida na Geórgia em 1984, tornou-se cidadã britânica em 2005.

Em 2003, com apenas 19 anos Katie Melua gravou o seu primeiro albúm e vendeu um milhão de exemplares em cinco semanas. Deste primeiro trabalho, "The Closest Thing to Crazy"  numa gravação ao vivo.

Um bonito poema... e sem dúvida, uma excelente melodia...

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?

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
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 make 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 from you?
How can anyone feel so wild?
How can anyone feel so blue?

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
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.

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