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Seal - Crazy (live at Peace Prize Nobel, 11 December 2012)

Crazy is a song originated by English soul artist Seal, who wrote its lyrics and jointly composed its music in collaboration with producer Guy Sigsworth.

The song was produced by Trevor Horn for Seal's debut album Seal (1991).

Released as his debut single, "Crazy" became one of Seal's biggest hits, reaching the top five in the United Kingdom and first top ten in the United States.

It has since been interpreted by several artists, including Alanis Morissette, whose version was released as a single from her album The Collection (2005).

The song's signature is a keyboard mantra that continually swells and swirls, driven by bass-heavy beats and wah-wah pedal guitars.

It’s floating, ambient stylings established a sound years before "The Politics of Dancing" by Paul Van Dyk or William Orbit's work with Madonna and All Saints. Orbit produced a remix of the track for the single release.

Seal's vocals are deeply melodic and soulful, at times with a characteristic rasp, while at others soaring high above the backing track.

In the United Kingdom the song was released as the first single from the album Seal in November 1990 (see 1990 in music) and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in January 1991 and is Seal's biggest solo hit there.

The single sold over 200,000 copies, thus earning a BPI Silver certification.

It won Seal a number of awards including the 1992 Ivor Novello award for songwriting.

The single was released in the United States in 1991, debuting at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid-June; it peaked at number seven in late August and remained on the chart for nineteen weeks, until October.

It reached the top five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and the top twenty on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.

It was the most commercially successful single from Seal and was Seal's biggest hit in the U.S. until "Kiss from a Rose", which reached #1 in 1995.

In August 2003 an acoustic version of "Crazy" charted at number four on Billboard's Hot Digital Tracks chart.

The single's music video, directed by Big TV!, features multiple re-creations of Seal himself performing the song against a primarily white background. A female dancer appears just before the bridge of the song, and at the end Seal holds a dove while snow falls on him.

The song plays during a party scene in the film "Naked in New York," released in (1993), is heard in a Baywatch episode, in the trailer for the film The Basketball Diaries (1995) and featured in a scene in Spike Lee's Clockers, released in 1995.

It is also heard in the middle of "True Calling," the second episode of Season 6 of TV's Cold Case.

It was also used as a theme song for the ABC-TV series Murder One, which was transmitted during the 1995–1996 television season. It is also heard in the film Mystery Date.

Seal is seen singing this song on an episode of the ABC series Eli Stone.

The middle break of the song, In a Sky Full of People, Only some want to fly, isn't that Crazy? is repeated towards the end of Seal's 1996 hit interpretation of "Fly Like An Eagle."

The song is the fourth track on Just Say Anything, volume five of the Just Say Yes collection.

The lyrics:

In a church, by the face

He talks about the people going under

Only child know

A man decides after seventy years

That what he goes there for, is to unlock the door

While those around him criticize and sleep

And through a fractal on a breaking wall

I see you my friend, and touch your face again

Miracles will happen as we trip

But we're never gonna survive, unless

We get a little crazy

No we're never gonna survive, unless

We are a little crazy

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

If all were there when we first took the pill

Then maybe, then maybe, then maybe, then maybe

Miracles will happen as we speak

But we're never gonna survive unless

We get a little crazy

No we're never gonna survive unless

We are a little crazy

No no, never survive, unless we get a little bit

Oh, a little bit

Oh, a little bit

Oh

Oh

Amanda decides to go along after seventeen years

Oh darlin'

In a sky full of people, only some want to fly

Isn't that crazy

In a world full of people, only some want to fly

Isn't that crazy, crazy

In a heaven of people there's only some want to fly

Ain't that crazy

Oh babe, oh darlin'

In a world full of people there's only some want to fly

Isn't that crazy, isn't that crazy, isn't that crazy, isn't that crazy

But were never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy

No were never gonna to survive unless we are a little

But were never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy

No were never gonna to survive unless, we are a little, crazy

No no, never survive unless, we get a little bit

And then you see things

The size of which youve never known before

They'll break it

Someday, only child know

Them things

The size of which youve never known before

Someday...

Someway...

Someday...

Someway...

Someday...

Someway...

Someday...