Maniac (1983)    (video)    (midi)

 

    Bb - C - Dm (2x)

 

                Dm

1. Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night,

                Dm

    lookin’ for the fight of her life.

               Bb

    In the real-time world no one sees her at all,

                                       A

    they all say she's crazy.

 

                   Dm 

2. Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart,

                     Dm

    changing movement into light,

                   Bb

    she has danced into the danger zone,

                                                       A

    when the dancer becomes the dance.

 

G                                    A                                        Bb

    It can cut you like a knife if the gift becomes the fire

                                   A                         A7

    on a wire between will and what will be.

 

               Bb          C                   Dm

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor,

                 Bb                          C                     Dm

and she's dancing like she's never danced before.

               Bb          C                   Dm

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor,

                 Bb                          C                       A     - A7

and she's dancing like she's never danced before.             +  Dm

 

                Dm

2. On the ice blue line of insanity

            Dm

    is a place most never see,

             Bb

    it's a hard-won place of mystery,

                                 A

    touch it but can't hold it.

 

             Dm

4. You work all your life, for that moment in time,

                 Dm

    it could come or pass you by,

             Bb

    it's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance,

                                          A

    if the hunger stays the night.

 

G                                      A                                                    Bb

    There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat,

                                             A                        A7

    never stopping with her head against the wind.

 

               Bb          C                    Dm

She's a maniac, maniac, at your love,

                 Bb                          C                     Dm

and she's dancing like she's never danced before.

               Bb          C                    Dm

She's a maniac, maniac, at your love,

                 Bb                          C                       A      - A7

and she's dancing like she's never danced before.

 

+  Bb - C - A - Dm (3x)  - Bb - C - A - A7

 

+  instrumental = CHORUS

 

    G                                    A                                        Bb

+      It can cut you like a knife if the gift becomes the fire

                                   A                         A7

    on a wire between will and what will be.

 

+  CHORUS ....

 

(orig. = capo 1st; midi = capo 2nd)    (Michael Sembello)