Michael Sembello, Maniac (1983)
Key: :[Bm] (w: Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello) (BPM: 160 / 00-A) (Original Key: D#m)
INTRO:
[G] [A] [Bm] [Bm] /
[G] [A] [Bm] [Bm]
VERSE 1:
Just a
[G/B] steel town girl on a
[Bm6] Saturday night
Looking
[Bm7] for the fight of her
[BmMaj7] life
in the
[G] real time world no one
[Gadd9] sees her at all
they
[Asus2/G] all say she's ^
[F#7sus4] crazy ^
[F#7]
VERSE 2:
Locking
[G/B] rhythm to the
[Bm6] beat of her heart
Changing
[Bm7] movement into
[BmMaj7] light
She had
[G] danced into the
[Gadd9] danger zone
When the
[Asus2/G] dancer becomes the ^
[F#7sus4] dance ^
[F#7]
PRE-CHORUS 1:
[E7] It can cut you like a
[F#7] knife if the fight becomes the
[G] fire
On the wire between
[F#7] will and what will
[F#7] be
CHORUS:
She's a
[G] maniac,
[A] maniac on the
[Bm] floor
[Bm]
And she's
[G] dancing like she's
[A] never danced be-
[Bm]-fore
[Bm]
She's a
[G] maniac,
[A] maniac on the
[Bm] floor
[Bm]
And she's
[G] dancing like she's
[A] never danced be-
[E9]-fore
[E9]
VERSE 3:
On the
[G/B] ice blue line of in-
[Bm6]-sanity
is a
[Bm7] place most never
[BmMaj7] see
It's a
[G] hard won place of
[Gadd9] mystery
[Asus2/G] touch it but can't ^
[F#7sus4] hold it ^
[F#7]
VERSE 4:
You
[G/B] work all your life, for that
[Bm6] moment in time
It could
[Bm7] come or pass you
[BmMaj7] by
it's a
[G] push shove world but there's
[Gadd9] always a chance
if the
[Asus2/G] hunger stays the ^
[F#7sus4] night ^
[F#7]
PRE-CHORUS:
[E7] There's a cold kinetic
[F#7] heat struggling stretching for the
[G] peak
Never stopping with her head
[F#7] against the
[F#7] wind
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [G] ^
[F#7][Bm] [G] ^
[F#7][Bm]
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS 1:
