

He doesn't mind being called crazy because The start of the song describes losing his mind as "so pleasant." Being crazy is a negative insult to society at large, but Cee-Lo embraces it. They were penned by the proudly eccentric Cee-Lo Green, and I read them primarily as a defense of his lifelong commitment to living as he sees fit, regardless of whether that puts him out of step with others, or with society as a whole. In context, I think the lyrics are much more positive than you're painting them. Why is that outcry of being crazy by Gnarls Barkley? Is there a continuous loop of broken record suffering and unending agony that he feels around him for being crazy? Why is he saying that? Is he saying that out of anger and hating himself because he knew every dirty little secret of this corrupted and polluted world, the acrid smell of these rat's alleyways, the stench of necropolis that flew in through the window, and how all these caused him to be an insane person? Just because he knew what goes behind the backdrop. Does that make me crazy? Does that make me crazy? Does that make me crazy? Possibly." By saying "But it wasn't because I didn't know enough, I just knew too much.

Here Gnarls Barkely the band says when I was out there without any care I was out of touch.

But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
