Michael Sembello, Maniac (1983)
Key: :[Cm] (w: Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello) (BPM: 160 / 00-A) (Original Key: D#m)
INTRO:
[G#] [A#] [Cm] [Cm] /
[G#] [A#] [Cm] [Cm]
VERSE 1:
Just a
[G#/C] steel town girl on a
[Cm6] Saturday night
Looking
[Cm7] for the fight of her
[CmMaj7] life
in the
[G#] real time world no one
[G#add9] sees her at all
they
[A#sus2/G#] all say she's ^
[G7sus4] crazy ^
[G7]
VERSE 2:
Locking
[G#/C] rhythm to the
[Cm6] beat of her heart
Changing
[Cm7] movement into
[CmMaj7] light
She had
[G#] danced into the
[G#add9] danger zone
When the
[A#sus2/G#] dancer becomes the ^
[G7sus4] dance ^
[G7]
PRE-CHORUS 1:
[F7] It can cut you like a
[G7] knife if the fight becomes the
[G#] fire
On the wire between
[G7] will and what will
[G7] be
CHORUS:
She's a
[G#] maniac,
[A#] maniac on the
[Cm] floor
[Cm]
And she's
[G#] dancing like she's
[A#] never danced be-
[Cm]-fore
[Cm]
She's a
[G#] maniac,
[A#] maniac on the
[Cm] floor
[Cm]
And she's
[G#] dancing like she's
[A#] never danced be-
[F9]-fore
[F9]
VERSE 3:
On the
[G#/C] ice blue line of in-
[Cm6]-sanity
is a
[Cm7] place most never
[CmMaj7] see
It's a
[G#] hard won place of
[G#add9] mystery
[A#sus2/G#] touch it but can't ^
[G7sus4] hold it ^
[G7]
VERSE 4:
You
[G#/C] work all your life, for that
[Cm6] moment in time
It could
[Cm7] come or pass you
[CmMaj7] by
it's a
[G#] push shove world but there's
[G#add9] always a chance
if the
[A#sus2/G#] hunger stays the ^
[G7sus4] night ^
[G7]
PRE-CHORUS:
[F7] There's a cold kinetic
[G7] heat struggling stretching for the
[G#] peak
Never stopping with her head
[G7] against the
[G7] wind
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [G#] ^
[G7][Cm] [G#] ^
[G7][Cm]
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS 1:
REPEAT CHORUS: [multiple times]
