Michael Sembello, Maniac (1983)
Key: :[Dbm] (w: Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello) (BPM: 160 / 00-A) (Original Key: Ebm)
INTRO:
[A] [B] [Dbm] [Dbm] /
[A] [B] [Dbm] [Dbm]
VERSE 1:
Just a
[A/Db] steel town girl on a
[Dbm6] Saturday night
Looking
[Dbm7] for the fight of her
[DbmMaj7] life
in the
[A] real time world no one
[Aadd9] sees her at all
they
[Bsus2/A] all say she's ^
[Ab7sus4] crazy ^
[Ab7]
VERSE 2:
Locking
[A/Db] rhythm to the
[Dbm6] beat of her heart
Changing
[Dbm7] movement into
[DbmMaj7] light
She had
[A] danced into the
[Aadd9] danger zone
When the
[Bsus2/A] dancer becomes the ^
[Ab7sus4] dance ^
[Ab7]
PRE-CHORUS 1:
[Gb7] It can cut you like a
[Ab7] knife if the fight becomes the
[A] fire
On the wire between
[Ab7] will and what will
[Ab7] be
CHORUS:
She's a
[A] maniac,
[B] maniac on the
[Dbm] floor
[Dbm]
And she's
[A] dancing like she's
[B] never danced be-
[Dbm]-fore
[Dbm]
She's a
[A] maniac,
[B] maniac on the
[Dbm] floor
[Dbm]
And she's
[A] dancing like she's
[B] never danced be-
[Gb9]-fore
[Gb9]
VERSE 3:
On the
[A/Db] ice blue line of in-
[Dbm6]-sanity
is a
[Dbm7] place most never
[DbmMaj7] see
It's a
[A] hard won place of
[Aadd9] mystery
[Bsus2/A] touch it but can't ^
[Ab7sus4] hold it ^
[Ab7]
VERSE 4:
You
[A/Db] work all your life, for that
[Dbm6] moment in time
It could
[Dbm7] come or pass you
[DbmMaj7] by
it's a
[A] push shove world but there's
[Aadd9] always a chance
if the
[Bsus2/A] hunger stays the ^
[Ab7sus4] night ^
[Ab7]
PRE-CHORUS:
[Gb7] There's a cold kinetic
[Ab7] heat struggling stretching for the
[A] peak
Never stopping with her head
[Ab7] against the
[Ab7] wind
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [A] ^
[Ab7][Dbm] [A] ^
[Ab7][Dbm]
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS 1:
REPEAT CHORUS: [multiple times]