Michael Sembello, Maniac (1983)
Key: :[Abm] (w: Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello) (BPM: 160 / 00-A) (Original Key: Ebm)
INTRO:
[E] [Gb] [Abm] [Abm] /
[E] [Gb] [Abm] [Abm]
VERSE 1:
Just a
[E/Ab] steel town girl on a
[Abm6] Saturday night
Looking
[Abm7] for the fight of her
[AbmMaj7] life
in the
[E] real time world no one
[Eadd9] sees her at all
they
[Gbsus2/E] all say she's ^
[Eb7sus4] crazy ^
[Eb7]
VERSE 2:
Locking
[E/Ab] rhythm to the
[Abm6] beat of her heart
Changing
[Abm7] movement into
[AbmMaj7] light
She had
[E] danced into the
[Eadd9] danger zone
When the
[Gbsus2/E] dancer becomes the ^
[Eb7sus4] dance ^
[Eb7]
PRE-CHORUS 1:
[Db7] It can cut you like a
[Eb7] knife if the fight becomes the
[E] fire
On the wire between
[Eb7] will and what will
[Eb7] be
CHORUS:
She's a
[E] maniac,
[Gb] maniac on the
[Abm] floor
[Abm]
And she's
[E] dancing like she's
[Gb] never danced be-
[Abm]-fore
[Abm]
She's a
[E] maniac,
[Gb] maniac on the
[Abm] floor
[Abm]
And she's
[E] dancing like she's
[Gb] never danced be-
[Db9]-fore
[Db9]
VERSE 3:
On the
[E/Ab] ice blue line of in-
[Abm6]-sanity
is a
[Abm7] place most never
[AbmMaj7] see
It's a
[E] hard won place of
[Eadd9] mystery
[Gbsus2/E] touch it but can't ^
[Eb7sus4] hold it ^
[Eb7]
VERSE 4:
You
[E/Ab] work all your life, for that
[Abm6] moment in time
It could
[Abm7] come or pass you
[AbmMaj7] by
it's a
[E] push shove world but there's
[Eadd9] always a chance
if the
[Gbsus2/E] hunger stays the ^
[Eb7sus4] night ^
[Eb7]
PRE-CHORUS:
[Db7] There's a cold kinetic
[Eb7] heat struggling stretching for the
[E] peak
Never stopping with her head
[Eb7] against the
[Eb7] wind
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [E] ^
[Eb7][Abm] [E] ^
[Eb7][Abm]
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS 1:
REPEAT CHORUS: [multiple times]
