Maniac // Michael Sembello // POMPLAMOOSE

Been on a Michael Sembello trip ever since covering Maniac. What a weird, ingenious composition! Save this song on Spotify: Follow us on instagram: Become a patron of our music (to vote on the songs we cover and get merch and stuff like that): A cover of Michael Sembello’s “Maniac“ by Pomplamoose. MUSICIAN CREDITS Lead Vocals: Nataly Dawn Synth: Jack Conte, Swatkins & Karina DePiano Drums: Ben Rose Background Vocals: Sarah Dugas AUDIO CREDITS Engineer: Bill Mims Assistant Engineer: Jack Corbett Mixing/Mastering: Yianni AP Producer: Ben Rose VIDEO CREDITS Director: Dom Fera DP: Ryan Blewett Camera Operators: Austin Hughes, Riley Donavan Gaffer: Nash White Video Editor/Colorist: Athena Wheaton PA/Wardrobe: Alex Allen Operations Manager: Chris Modl 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 Where 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 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 this 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, pressing for the beat 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, I should know And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before Ooh, oh Oh There’s a cold kinetic heat Struggling, stretching for the beat 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, I should know And she’s dancing, yeah she’s dancing, oh she’s dancing She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before She’s a maniac, maniac, I should know And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before