Song: Maniac ~~ 1983 ~~ 4:12
Artist: Michael Sembello
LP/CD: Flashdance S/T ~~ Casablanca ~~ 1983
Composers: Michael Sembello~Dennis Matkosky

Just a still town girl on a Saturday night
Lookin’ for the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her at all
They all say she’s crazy

Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart
Changing woman into life
She has danced into the danger zone
When the dancer becomes a dance

It can cut you like a knife
If the gift becomes the fight
All the while you’re
Between will and what will be

She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

On the ice-build line of sanity
It’s a place most never see
It’s a hard warm place of mystery
Touch it, but can’t hold it

You work all your life for that moment in time
It could come or pass you by
It’s a push up world, but there’s always a chance
If the hunger stays alive

There’s a cold connective heat
Struggling, stretching for defeat
Never stopping
With her head against the wind

She’s a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

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It can cut you like a knife
If the gift becomes the fight
All the while you’re
Between will and what will be

She’s a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

Maniac, maniac, I sure know

Transcribed by: Char Star
Uploaded on: April 8, 1999