Michael Sembello, Maniac (1983)
Key: :[Fm] (w: Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello) (BPM: 160 / 00-A) (Original Key: Ebm)
INTRO:
[Db] [Eb] [Fm] [Fm] /
[Db] [Eb] [Fm] [Fm]
VERSE 1:
Just a
[Db/F] steel town girl on a
[Fm6] Saturday night
Looking
[Fm7] for the fight of her
[FmMaj7] life
in the
[Db] real time world no one
[Dbadd9] sees her at all
they
[Ebsus2/Db] all say she's ^
[C7sus4] crazy ^
[C7]
VERSE 2:
Locking
[Db/F] rhythm to the
[Fm6] beat of her heart
Changing
[Fm7] movement into
[FmMaj7] light
She had
[Db] danced into the
[Dbadd9] danger zone
When the
[Ebsus2/Db] dancer becomes the ^
[C7sus4] dance ^
[C7]
PRE-CHORUS 1:
[Bb7] It can cut you like a
[C7] knife if the fight becomes the
[Db] fire
On the wire between
[C7] will and what will
[C7] be
CHORUS:
She's a
[Db] maniac,
[Eb] maniac on the
[Fm] floor
[Fm]
And she's
[Db] dancing like she's
[Eb] never danced be-
[Fm]-fore
[Fm]
She's a
[Db] maniac,
[Eb] maniac on the
[Fm] floor
[Fm]
And she's
[Db] dancing like she's
[Eb] never danced be-
[Bb9]-fore
[Bb9]
VERSE 3:
On the
[Db/F] ice blue line of in-
[Fm6]-sanity
is a
[Fm7] place most never
[FmMaj7] see
It's a
[Db] hard won place of
[Dbadd9] mystery
[Ebsus2/Db] touch it but can't ^
[C7sus4] hold it ^
[C7]
VERSE 4:
You
[Db/F] work all your life, for that
[Fm6] moment in time
It could
[Fm7] come or pass you
[FmMaj7] by
it's a
[Db] push shove world but there's
[Dbadd9] always a chance
if the
[Ebsus2/Db] hunger stays the ^
[C7sus4] night ^
[C7]
PRE-CHORUS:
[Bb7] There's a cold kinetic
[C7] heat struggling stretching for the
[Db] peak
Never stopping with her head
[C7] against the
[C7] wind
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [Db] ^
[C7][Fm] [Db] ^
[C7][Fm]
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS 1:
REPEAT CHORUS: [multiple times]