Songfacts®:

• This heartbreaker of a country song finds Jason Pierce driven "crazy" by his love for a woman.
• The most country song Spiritualized has ever recorded, Pierce originally envisaged "Crazy" as a Lee Hazlewood-esque orchestral serenade. Because of budgetary limitations, it gave way to a Mellotron-backed recording. "Most people edit down - they have 15, 16 tracks that they edit down to eight or nine for an album," he told Apple Music. "I feel like I edit up: I haven't got enough songs to ever edit something out of the equation, so I drag everything up to be the best it could be."
• Pearce co-wrote "Crazy" with former tour mate Nikki Lane, who also supplies backing vocals. Country singer-songwriter Nikki Lane is best known to many for "Breaking Up Slowly," a duet with Lana Del Rey.
• Jason Pierce titled this simple country ballad after Patsy Cline's classic song. "That was helped immensely by working with Nikki Lane," he told Mojo magazine. "I didn't think I would have dared sing a phrase like 'I must make amends,' had she not been involved.
  
  "I've always wanted to make a country record," Pierce added. "Matthew Johnson at Fat Possum sends me Waylon Jennings records for my country record but there's something (I don't like about) trying to recapture that old school sound, like that sort of retro - Motown thing, soul music that doesn't seem to have any soul in it."
• Fat Possum Records released "Crazy" as the second single from Everything Was Beautiful, a companion piece to 2018's And Nothing Hurt. Pierce created both from the same set of demos and the titles form a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's antiwar novel Slaughterhouse-Five ("Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt").
  
  Pierce has always liked Vonnegut's cynicism and sarcasm and the American writer's quote resonated with the singer because of its odd optimism. "More so with the second half of this release than that last, it felt like there was a kind of optimism in this record and it's kind of accidental," Pierce explained to Uncut magazine. "It wasn't like I tried to capture that. Its most apparent in always together with you - the demo seems full of sadness and distance and the new version seems full of optimism and hope even though it's the same words and same tune. It seemed like, for once, the record resonated with the times it was made in, not for any deliberation on my part. For once, it seems like it had landed at the right time."
• Pierce's original idea had been a double album containing all the tracks, but Matthew Johnson of Fat Possum advised against it. "He cited The White Album (The Beatles) and Exile On Main Street (Rolling Stones) as being rediscovered later," Pierce told The Sun. "But he's not in the business of having things rediscovered. He's in the business of selling records now."