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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 because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly
And now that you are having the time of your life
Well think twice
That's my only advice
Come on now
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you think you are?
Ha ha ha
Bless your soul
You really think you're in control?
Well
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me
My heroes had the heart
To live the life I wanna live
And all I remember is thinking
I wanna be like them
Mmhmm
Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little, it looked like fun
And as no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably
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 because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly
And now that you are having the time of your life
Well think twice
That's my only advice
Come on now
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you think you are?
Ha ha ha
Bless your soul
You really think you're in control?
Well
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me
My heroes had the heart
To live the life I wanna live
And all I remember is thinking
I wanna be like them
Mmhmm
Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little, it looked like fun
And as no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably
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I think this song is saying that it often takes being in a dark emotional place to really begin to understand who you are as a person/who we are as people. It's a critique of the majority who go through life seemingly happy and "in control" but who don't really question or analyse themselves or what is going on around them and instead conform to what they perceive to be normal while assuming that people who are deeper are "crazy". In the last verse it it is suggested that the people to be admired are the ones who aren't afraid to step away from the norm and the choruses that pose the question; "does my deeper understanding/view of myself and what's going on make me crazy or is it actually just everyone else?!"
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
***He's not talking about actually losing his mind the way you may think of it, its not like some movie where someone goes "crazy" or "berzerk" or something, its about a way of life, a time and a place that led you to become that person that ends up going against the grain. It's a lonely place, very much a place of solitude...William Blake said going insane was when someone's inner world became bigger then their outer world. Going crazy to a lot of people is a journey of living an outward life to an inward life...."crazy" people may just be people who spend more time inside their own mind then being concious of the exterior world around them. Anyway, an empty space, that allows echo's.....thought and emotional echo's...where there is less competition for your focus and thought. ****
And when you're out there, without care
Yeah, I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
****After you turn, and live an interior based life, a "crazy" minded life...and then you go out into the world...you realize you are against the grain and that can make you "out of touch" with the world. But its not out of ignorance, its a choice you made with the way you have lived your life and guided your own thoughts...you have but yourself out of touch with the world.
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly
****pretty straight forward at this point. Does me making myself different from the world i live in make me crazy? would i be sane to just fit in? possibly, right?
And now that you are having the time of your life
Well think twice
That's my only advice
Come on now
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you think you are?
Ha ha ha
Bless your soul
You really think you're in control?
Well
****This is about all the people who are not against the grain but create the grain itself. He is not bitter to these people...he wishes them well in their happiness, but he just wants them to possibly reconsider things...because if these people think they have achieved something or are somehow in control of things, they are joking themselves...they are naive, like children...bless your soul child.
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me
*****so here he flips it and says, well, look, if i'm crazy for being against the grain and standing out...what if we look at it from a different angle, and look at what could be wrong with your lifestyle or your stand in life. And when we change that angle, does that not show that you are crazy. If i'm crazy then you are crazy. Being Crazy is relative to labeler, they create the bounds of what is crazy and not crazy...it is not some text book definition of things. essentially.
My heroes had the heart
To live the life I wanna live
And all I remember is thinking
I wanna be like them
Mmhmm
Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little, it looked like fun
And as no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
****This last verse is his justification for his choice that led him to being labeled crazy. He is saying he had hero's, people who inspired him to be better, to reach his potential and to not feel so alone whilst standing out there against the grain...He is saying he always had this attraction to this, and it is as he see's it his destiny, his greatest potential to become one of his hero's...to essentially become a hero to the next generation of "against the grainer's".
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably
****Crazy is subjective....maybe i'm crazy, maybe you are, maybe we both are, but who knows...its all just one persons viewpoint against anothers in the end anyway...so we probably are maybe crazy....but maybe we're not...maybe there is no crazy...there is just people who don't understand other people and feel like the only way they can make up for the lack of understanding is to create label terms like "crazy" that really don't mean anything.
So there you go, my two cents.
you really think youre in control?" (mainly this one)
"even your emotions had an echo
in so much space" (this is about being free of responsibility, as is proven in the next line)
"and when youre out there
without care, yeah i was out of touch
but it wasnt because i didnt know enough
i just knew too much" (this is about acting irresponsibly [cos it is fun] and that he was aware of the damage he was causing)
"i hope that you are having the time of your life
but think twice, thats my only advice" (mr gnarles here never made the conscious decision not to believe in God)
"my heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
and all i remember is thinkin i wanna be like them" (martyrs)
also the music video was just made to look like fractals that they show people for therapy, cos were crazy... get it? the first line i quoted is probably the strongest.
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.
This is when he slipped mentally, you can't tell anymore if good is bad and your talking to yourself trying to make sense. Everything that was real now became false. You try to embrace it but you know what your thinking is wrong but it makes sense and you lost it. Now it has you and your lost in space.
And when you're out there, without care Yeah, I was out of touch But it wasn't because I didn't know enough I just knew too much
You don't loose control when things make sense and everything fits. But when the flood of information comes in your mind throws an exception and your caught.
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly
He is talking to himself, trying to tell himself he is crazy cause he doesn't want to see it. He thinks maybe he is crazy and the truth of it is all the same. He isn't sure.
And now that you are having the time of your life
Well think twice
That's my only advice
He has lost it. He isn't sure if he should come back to reality. Why ? Think about everything else your gonna give up on.
Come on now
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you
Who do you think you are?
Ha ha ha
Bless your soul
You really think you're in control?
Well
Here is where he is coming back you have to give up control before you can land again. Cause your gonna need someone to help you.
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me
He meshed the two realities.
My heroes had the heart
To live the life I wanna live
And all I remember is thinking
I wanna be like them
Mmhmm
Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little, it looked like fun
And as no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
To move on from whatever made him crazy he set a goal. The goal is way out there super hero and he says to himself maybe this is really how it was supposed to be. He wants to be a hero and not a failure and he has now learned that's how he wants to die fighting.
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably
It's all crazy and he will never see things the same. But it goes from crazy to crazy and that's the risk.
--Steven
Drugs, drugs, drugs drugs drugs.
Some say it was Greenland, and some say Mexico
Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could
1)having "it".
2)Losing "it".
3)Coming to terms with the fact that there is no "it".
Most people never make it past the middle/late stage #1
Many, (me included) are stuck in late stage #2 and aware of #3 and either cannot or do not have the courage wrap their brain fully around stage #3 and implament it in any kind of functional lifestyle.
People that can make it to stage 3 and still preform, i.e stay upright and keep taking nourishment are far and few between and the experience (in my belief) will either make or break them complete.
Jesus is the Way, Truth, and Life!