«Maniac» es una canción de Michael Sembello del año 1983. Esta canción fue un gran éxito en la época, llegando al número 1 en varios países. La canción trata sobre una persona obsesionada con alguien, que se siente atraída por la pasión y el peligro de la relación. Está compuesta con un ritmo de rock electrónico y contiene una línea de bajo pegadiza. La canción fue popularizada por su uso en la película Flashdance.
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 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 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 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 peak
Never stopping, with her head against the wind
She’s a maniac, maniac at your door
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac at your door
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
Oh!
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 at your door
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac at your door
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
Maniac, maniac at your door
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
