[Michael Sembello] "Maniac"
(Dennis Matkosky/Michael Sembello)

Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night
Looking for the fight of her life
In the real time world no one sees her at all, they all say she's crazy
Locking rythms 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 the 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

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 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 peak
Never stopping with her head against the wind

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

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