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'80s Workout

1. Maniac (1983)

   Lyrics: Maniac (1983)

   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
   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
   
   Ooh, oh
   
   Ooh, ah
   
   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
   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