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The lyrics of the song take the form of a series of rhetorical questions, describing the contradictory emotions of being in love. It has an irregular meter with a mix of 4 The song is played in the key of E major at a tempo of 64 beats per minute. At the end of 2004, due to its longevity on the UK chart, the song came in at number 77 on the year-end chart, making it the lowest-charting song to finish within the top 100 for that year.

However, owing to the success of the album reaching number one, the song climbed back into the top 20 during January and February and resulted in Melua's first nomination for the annual Record of the Year prize on ITV1. The single was originally due out in January 2004 but was released a month early in an attempt by Terry Wogan to make it that year's Christmas number one in the United Kingdom it stalled at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was written as part of the musical Men Who March Away', and appeared first in 1995 on Mike Batt's album Arabesque. The song is featured on her first studio album, Call Off the Search (2003). " The Closest Thing to Crazy" is the debut single of Georgia-born singer Katie Melua. 2003 single by Katie Melua "The Closest Thing to Crazy"
