Michael Sembello, Maniac (1983)
Key: :[Dm] (w: Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello) (BPM: 160 / 00-A) (Original Key: Ebm)
INTRO:
[Bb] [C] [Dm] [Dm] /
[Bb] [C] [Dm] [Dm]
VERSE 1:
Just a
[Bb/D] steel town girl on a
[Dm6] Saturday night
Looking
[Dm7] for the fight of her
[DmMaj7] life
in the
[Bb] real time world no one
[Bbadd9] sees her at all
they
[Csus2/Bb] all say she's ^
[A7sus4] crazy ^
[A7]
VERSE 2:
Locking
[Bb/D] rhythm to the
[Dm6] beat of her heart
Changing
[Dm7] movement into
[DmMaj7] light
She had
[Bb] danced into the
[Bbadd9] danger zone
When the
[Csus2/Bb] dancer becomes the ^
[A7sus4] dance ^
[A7]
PRE-CHORUS 1:
[G7] It can cut you like a
[A7] knife if the fight becomes the
[Bb] fire
On the wire between
[A7] will and what will
[A7] be
CHORUS:
She's a
[Bb] maniac,
[C] maniac on the
[Dm] floor
[Dm]
And she's
[Bb] dancing like she's
[C] never danced be-
[Dm]-fore
[Dm]
She's a
[Bb] maniac,
[C] maniac on the
[Dm] floor
[Dm]
And she's
[Bb] dancing like she's
[C] never danced be-
[G9]-fore
[G9]
VERSE 3:
On the
[Bb/D] ice blue line of in-
[Dm6]-sanity
is a
[Dm7] place most never
[DmMaj7] see
It's a
[Bb] hard won place of
[Bbadd9] mystery
[Csus2/Bb] touch it but can't ^
[A7sus4] hold it ^
[A7]
VERSE 4:
You
[Bb/D] work all your life, for that
[Dm6] moment in time
It could
[Dm7] come or pass you
[DmMaj7] by
it's a
[Bb] push shove world but there's
[Bbadd9] always a chance
if the
[Csus2/Bb] hunger stays the ^
[A7sus4] night ^
[A7]
PRE-CHORUS:
[G7] There's a cold kinetic
[A7] heat struggling stretching for the
[Bb] peak
Never stopping with her head
[A7] against the
[A7] wind
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [Bb] ^
[A7][Dm] [Bb] ^
[A7][Dm]
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS 1:
REPEAT CHORUS: [multiple times]
