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    AWOLNATION

    Maniac

    Release date: 6th May 2022

    From My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me
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    About This Track

    "Maniac" is a track by AWOLNATION, from the album My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me, released 6th May 2022. Full lyrics are available below.

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    AWOLNATION

    Lyrics

    Maniac

    [Verse 1]
    
    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
    
    [Pre-Chorus]
    
    It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
    
    On a wire between will and what will be
    
    [Chorus]
    
    She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
    
    And she's dancing like shе's never danced bеfore
    
    She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
    
    And she's dancing like she's never danced before
    
    [Verse 2]
    
    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
    
    [Pre-Chorus]
    
    There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat
    
    Never stopping with her head against the wind
    
    [Chorus]
    
    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
    
    [Pre-Chorus]
    
    It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
    
    On a wire between will and what will be
    
    [Chorus]
    
    She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (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
    
    And she's dancing like she's never danced before
    
    She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know)
    
    And she's dancing like she's never danced before

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    From My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me

    2022
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    My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me
    My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me
    AWOLNATION
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    2022
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    2. —Just a Friend
    3. —Eye in the Sky
    4. —Take a Chance on Me
    5. —Waiting Room
    6. —Maniac

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