Michael Sembello Maniac song lyrics

Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night

Lookin' for the fight of her life

In the real-time world no one sees her at all

They all say she's crazy

Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart

Changing movement into light

She has danced into the danger zone

When the dancer becomes the dance

It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire

On a wire between will and what will be

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor

And she's dancing like she's never danced before

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor

And she's dancing like she's never danced before

(crazy! crazy! crazy! crazy!)

On the ice-blue line of insanity is a place most never see

It's a hard-won place of mystery: touch it, but can't hold it.

You work all your life for that moment in time, it could come or pass you by

It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance

If the hunger stays the night

There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat

Never stopping with her head against the wind

She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know. And she's dancing like she's never danced before

She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know. And she's dancing like she's never danced before

It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire

On a wire between will and what will be

She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know)

And she's dancing like she's never danced before

She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before

Maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before