Oh, Michael Sembello, I love this song a lot. Â And most of that love, as I’ve said before, is because of Jennifer Beals. Â I’m not going to go into detail about my love of this song as I will undoubtedly end up sounding pervy. Â Which would be fair. Â So I’ll just show you what I’m talking about as I feel the following clip speaks for itself.
“Maniac”
<awesome Michael Sembello jam>
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 cutchoo 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 dancin’ like she’s never danced befooore
She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she’s dancin’ like she’s never danced befoooooore
(Crazy crazy crazy crazy)
On the ice-blue line of insanity
It’s a place most never see
It’s a hard-won place of mystery
Touch it, but can’t hoooold it
You work all ya 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
Strugglin’, stretching for the beat
Never stopping with her head against the wind
She’s a maniac, maniac atcho door
And she’s dancin’ like she’s never danced befoooore
She’s a maniac, maniac atcho door
And she’s dancin’ like she’s never danced befooooore
<awesome Michael Sembello jam>
It can cutchoo like a knife
If the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be
She’s a maniac, maniac atcho door (atcho door!)
And she’s dancin’ like she’s never danced befoooore
She’s a maniac, maniac atcho door
And she’s dancin’ like she’s never danced befooooore
Maniac, maniac atcho door
And she’s dancin’ like she’s never danced befoooooore
She’s a maniac, maniac
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