Michael Sembello, Maniac (1983)
Key: :[G#m] (w: Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello) (BPM: 160 / 00-A) (Original Key: D#m)
INTRO:
[E] [F#] [G#m] [G#m] /
[E] [F#] [G#m] [G#m]
VERSE 1:
Just a
[E/G#] steel town girl on a
[G#m6] Saturday night
Looking
[G#m7] for the fight of her
[G#mMaj7] life
in the
[E] real time world no one
[Eadd9] sees her at all
they
[F#sus2/E] all say she's ^
[D#7sus4] crazy ^
[D#7]
VERSE 2:
Locking
[E/G#] rhythm to the
[G#m6] beat of her heart
Changing
[G#m7] movement into
[G#mMaj7] light
She had
[E] danced into the
[Eadd9] danger zone
When the
[F#sus2/E] dancer becomes the ^
[D#7sus4] dance ^
[D#7]
PRE-CHORUS 1:
[C#7] It can cut you like a
[D#7] knife if the fight becomes the
[E] fire
On the wire between
[D#7] will and what will
[D#7] be
CHORUS:
She's a
[E] maniac,
[F#] maniac on the
[G#m] floor
[G#m]
And she's
[E] dancing like she's
[F#] never danced be-
[G#m]-fore
[G#m]
She's a
[E] maniac,
[F#] maniac on the
[G#m] floor
[G#m]
And she's
[E] dancing like she's
[F#] never danced be-
[C#9]-fore
[C#9]
VERSE 3:
On the
[E/G#] ice blue line of in-
[G#m6]-sanity
is a
[G#m7] place most never
[G#mMaj7] see
It's a
[E] hard won place of
[Eadd9] mystery
[F#sus2/E] touch it but can't ^
[D#7sus4] hold it ^
[D#7]
VERSE 4:
You
[E/G#] work all your life, for that
[G#m6] moment in time
It could
[G#m7] come or pass you
[G#mMaj7] by
it's a
[E] push shove world but there's
[Eadd9] always a chance
if the
[F#sus2/E] hunger stays the ^
[D#7sus4] night ^
[D#7]
PRE-CHORUS:
[C#7] There's a cold kinetic
[D#7] heat struggling stretching for the
[E] peak
Never stopping with her head
[D#7] against the
[D#7] wind
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [E] ^
[D#7][G#m] [E] ^
[D#7][G#m]
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS 1:
REPEAT CHORUS: [multiple times]
