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LONG AFTER SHE LEFT — “I’M STILL CRAZY.” “I’m Still Crazy” isn’t a breakup song. It’s what comes after the breakup, when time keeps moving and the heart refuses to follow. Vern Gosdin doesn’t plead or explain. He admits. The love is gone, the years have passed, and yet the feeling remains—quiet, stubborn, unresolved. His voice doesn’t dramatize the pain; it settles into it, like a man who has learned that some memories don’t fade, they linger. This song mirrors Vern’s own life—marked by highs and lows, deep hurt, and long stretches of loneliness. “Crazy” here doesn’t mean wild. It means faithful to a feeling that never healed.

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There’s a special kind of heartbreak that doesn’t fade with time—it just learns how to sit quietly. “I’m Still Crazy” is Vern Gosdin speaking from that place. Not loud. Not dramatic. Just honest in a way that feels almost uncomfortable, because it’s so familiar.

What makes this song unforgettable is its calm acceptance. Vern isn’t fighting the feeling or trying to move on faster than his heart will allow. He’s admitting the truth most people keep to themselves: even after time passes, even after life moves on, love can still stay right where it was left. That kind of honesty takes courage, and Vern delivers it without a trace of self-pity.

His voice does most of the work here. Warm, steady, and worn in all the right places, it sounds like a man who’s loved deeply and never tried to pretend otherwise. There’s no blame in the song, no bitterness—just the quiet acknowledgment that some connections don’t break cleanly. They linger.

If you’ve ever told yourself you should be over someone by now—and realized you aren’t—this song understands you. I’m Still Crazy isn’t about refusing to heal. It’s about recognizing that healing doesn’t always mean forgetting. Sometimes, it just means learning how to carry the feeling with grace.

That’s why the song still resonates. It doesn’t promise closure. It offers truth—and lets that be enough.

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Lyrics

Well, I woke up one morning
With a note up on my chest
It said I’m gone for good
You’re no longer with the best
Never dreamed there’d ever be
Another made for you
So, I just went crazy
There was nothing left to do
I used to be crazy over you
Nobody else could move me like you used to
I had to be out of my mind
Thinking I’d soon be over you
But I’m still crazy and I’m not over you
When the bad news finally hit me
Lord, it hurt me to the bone
I was just a fool to think
You could be just a little bit gone
But it would be easy
It wouldn’t be hard to forget
Little did I know
That I hadn’t seen nothing yet
I used to be crazy over you
Nobody else could move me like you used to
I had to be out of my mind
Thinking I’d soon be over you
I’m still crazy and I’m not over you
Oh, I’m still crazy and I’m not over you
Oh, I’m still crazy and I’m not over you
Oh, I’m still crazy and I’m not over you

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MOST SINGERS PERFORM HEARTBREAK. VERN GOSDIN LIVED IN IT. “The Voice of Broken Hearts” was never a nickname meant to flatter. It was something people said because they recognized themselves in his voice. Vern Gosdin didn’t sing about pain from a distance. He didn’t rush past it. His voice sounded tired because it had lived there a long time — through failed marriages, long loneliness, and nights that didn’t end when the song did. There was no drama in the delivery. Just truth, held steady. That’s why people who had really lost something heard him immediately. Not because he sang beautifully. But because he sang honestly. Vern didn’t give heartbreak a solution. He gave it a place to sit.

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ONE DIVORCE — AND A LIFETIME THAT NEVER REPLACED HIM. “I never remarried… Not because no one asked. But because no one else was you.” Years after the applause faded, Conway Twitty’s former wife, Temple Medley finally shared her truth, a soft whisper of a love story that outlasted fame, fortune, and time itself—a love that knew “You never stopped being mine… not really.”