Crazy (Brighter) Times

**Crazy (Brighter) Times** is the first opening to *The Sims 4: Meme House*, being played at the start of the later parts of Season 1. It was written and performed by YouTube user Mairiba.

The song is a parody of cheesy feel-good intros usually seen in old Sitcoms. It was only titled *"Vinesauce Joel's Meme House But I Wrote a Wholesome Sitcom Intro to it."* at first but was given a proper title later when the song received an extended version.

Joel first showcased the intro in Part 4, but it wasn't regularly used at the start of the Sims 4 streams until Part 8.

The original Intro version of the song is almost 1 minute long, it later received a 3-minute "Full Version" that was used for the endings of Season 1 and Season 2.

## Lyrics

*Three jabronis bunking along in the game of life*

*Finding the difference between today and tomorrow*

*Whenever you're down, whenever you feel like kicking out the trash*

*Just hold on before you burn the house down*

*(These are crazy times)*

*And we're only just gettin' by*

*(These are crazy lives)*

*And we'll try to make it a little brighter*

*We'll try to make it a little brighter.*

(Intro Version ends here)

*In every life, there comes a time you gotta make a stand*

*Sell your soul for the means to put 'em down*

*You fall in love and then you find you got a knife in the chest*

*Oh no, it had to be a Monday* (These are crazy times)
*And we're only just gettin' by*

*(These are crazy lives)*

*And we'll try to make it a little brighter*

*What a world we're livin' in where there's people dying every day*

*We lose our minds in our own way*

*One second in the neighborhood*

*The next, you're dinner time*

*But hold on tight. You might just find a friend*

*And through it all we thank the stars that we are keepin' on*

*From foe to friend & maybe so much more*

*And if you find that life has got you down a one way track*

*Hold on... there's demons at your door!*

*(These are crazy times)*

*And we're only just gettin' by*

*(These are crazy lives)*

*And we'll try to make it a little brighter*

*We're only tryin' to make it right*

*We'll try to make it a little brighter*

*(These are crazy times)*

*And we're only just gettin' by*

*(These are crazy lives)*

*And we'll try to make it a little brighter*

*We'll try to make it a little brighter...*

## Trivia

* The song's lyrics reference several moments from Season 1, from Dio Brando's tendency to kick trashcans to Jill Valentine and Nemesis T-Type's relationship, passing by Bonzi Buddy's pact with Satan, Bulk Bogan and Madeline Bynum's romance turned murder scenario, Bulk and Funky Kong's unlikely friendship and more.
* The song's lyrics also reference a line from Joel's other long-running series, *The Blue Shell Incident*, spoken by Garfield, "it had to be a Monday".
* The song title's abbreviation is CBT.
* In the first Parts of the series, Joel asked the viewers to make a parody Sitcom intro for the series. Crazy (Brighter) Times was the only one he showcased on stream, citing it as his favorite because, while the others were parodies using existing Sitcom intros with visuals of the streams, this song was completely original and talked about the series itself, making it feel official.

## Gallery

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