What does Crazy mean?

Gnarls Barkley: Crazy Meaning

Album cover for Crazy album cover

Song Released: 2006


Crazy Lyrics

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place.
Even your emotions have an echo
in so much space

And when you're out there
Without care,
Yeah, I was out of touch
But it wasn't...

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  1. Reana Shanea
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     Dec 12th 2010 !⃝

    this damn somg is not about drugs omg...i simply belive hes talkin about life and how we see it becus we all see it differently

  2. anonymous
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     Nov 16th 2010 !⃝

    I always thought it was " my heroes had the heart, to lose their life out on a limb" and reference to " this place"
    Its a spiritual perspective and a knowing that we are al following a beat to a drum which is foreing to our real nature

  3. anonymous
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     Oct 15th 2010 !⃝

    The song, to me explains the Illuminati

  4. anonymous
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     Jul 2nd 2010 !⃝

    OMG this song has SOO much more meaning than I used to think it did. We all need to take his 'advice' and 'think twice'! We need to 'lose our mind' (our conscious mind) to enter a place where our we're 'out of touch' (with this reality). Where we don't know too little, but we know too much! (our subconscious) THINK ABOUT IT! "Who do you think you are?" "Do you think you're in control?" Our subconscious controls MUCH more of this reality than we typically think it does!
    We're ALL "crazy"

  5. anonymous
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     Jun 26th 2010 !⃝

    I think this song has a political meaning to it.....its about how we are living life without knowing a thing that's going on around us....and about the elite that are in control and we think that life is all fun and games but if we look harder its all an illusion.....and gnarls barkley is saying that he may be crazy cause he feels this way....like he's trapped in a big brother like world, where nothing is at it seems.....but maybe he's just paranoid and it is as it seems!

  6. funguy
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     May 22nd 2010 !⃝

    This song is blatantly about an LSD / mushroom / mescaline trip. Anyone who has had one should find it pretty easy to decipher the lyrics. Anyone who hasn't will probably have a hard time of it. As was said above, under the influence of hallucinogens, you experience states of mind which are incredibly difficult to describe in words. I think this song does a pretty good job of it though. Crazy is a masterpiece in my mind! Peace.

  7. anonymous
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     May 5th 2010 !⃝

    This song is about Gnarls Barkleys experience with enlightenment. He might not know everything but what he does know, he understands thoroughly. He is enlightened, now what? It's difficult to figure out what to do after you reach enlightenment.

  8. anonymous
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     Apr 24th 2010 !⃝

    This song is about trying to explain an experience that happened while a young guy was on a daytura trip(tropane alkoloids) and yes it is saying you are naive. I have done some really bad stuff but if you want to act like it doesn't mean anything and you choose to ignore me so be it. It also talks about the people in his life who have followed the same path and perished because of the same arrogant attitude the people he is trying to speak with exibit. The man reached a point of inner strength where he realised that there is no greater power then that of the human will. This song was also written in about ten minutes under a high stress situation. Now I have a couple of points to make. All great lyricists can hide meanings in a line and those especially good at it can hide there whole meaning for existence in a song. These as you are aware are open to interpretation but please refrain from psycoanalysis where possible because to judge a lyric is to judge a man and to judge a man isto judge ones self. Oh and by the way the the origin to the psycoanalysis the youngman gave to the audience was this 'I think therefor I am'-Nietze all I ask from those reading is this.

  9. anonymous
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     Apr 19th 2010 !⃝

    Cee-Lo is a little too insightful & clever to write a song bragging about his experience with a recreational drug. This is obviously a commentary on the closed-minded, myopic and judgemental. He's describing his experience when he opened & freed his mind.

  10. chez262
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     Mar 23rd 2010 !⃝

    This song is quite simply questioning the required state to be labled 'crazy'.
    What one person deems crazy, is another persons sanity.
    Gnarls Barkley is being sarcastically clever whilst having no judgement whatsoever himself :)

  11. Mindtrix88
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     Mar 8th 2010 !⃝

    I had a near mental meltdown a few months ago and these lyrics just explained everything that i felt when i was in that state

    I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
    There was something so pleasant about that place.
    Even your emotions have an echo.

    I became hypersensitive to my own emotions but i felt i was also emotionally in touch with others. But when depression left me, i had learned a bit more about the myriad mind. Reflecting on my own experience insanity is quite pleasant if you live through it.

    He also said, Do you think you are in control?
    Saying that people tend to want control in their lives not knowing that the urge for control will lead you to insanity. I believe that control freaks especially those that aren't even aware of it are the ones that exhibit mental disorders.

  12. anonymous
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     Nov 2nd 2009 !⃝

    Hahaha bless your souls...

    here is what the song is about....
    http://www.musicbanter.com/lyrics/Gnarls-Barkley-Crazy.html

    it basically says that they were joking about having to be insane as an artist, to make it big and Gnarls wrote the song about that conversation...

    I won't paste here because of copyright.

    PS I liked the theory about LSD as I have taken LSD and I think has helped me stay sain in this crazy world and I also think it help me realize that WE are all GOD not GODS there is no "GOD" you get me???? Maybe I'm crazy... probably!!

    Peace love and unity.... or you'll get hell!!

  13. anonymous
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     Oct 15th 2009 !⃝

    This isn't about drugs. It's about the vast, overflowing space when there is no mind. Drugs are one way to get there and meditation is another. Who knows which path Gnarls took? If it was with drugs, his experience is over when the drug is gone. If through meditation, this is forever.

  14. anonymous
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     Sep 26th 2009 !⃝

    It appears very simple to me. The song's meaning is about loosing your innocence. It's a generic form of interpretation.

  15. anonymous
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     Sep 6th 2009 !⃝

    I agree this song is not about drugs but rather about so many others' belief in objective reality. We always (AFAIK) start life believing in laws of nature, and that there is an objective morality: some type of fail-safe science in life. Barkley comes in as an absurdist ("post-nihilist" philosophy), arguing that our beliefs are all absurd and unfounded, since "objective reality" is all open to interpretation, and since all we ultimately have is one mind (really, we can't even prove other minds exist. I think therefor I am, but what about you? Should I take your word for it?), everything we "know" is always subjective. Anything we believe is crazy. You could argue all I've posted are a bunch of claims and unprovable theories, which I agree with, but it only further makes the case for Absurdism. Our purpose is open to interpretation: our will to change anything, our will to live, our will to power, is all absurd. Before that realization that our existence is absurd, it was very comforting to know that our work objectively meant something, whether it was glorifying God, our ideals, or just ourselves. But once we do have that realization, we must wonder... why DO we work to accomplish goals? Probably because we're crazy.

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