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Firewind

Maniac

Release date: 21st March 2008

From The Premonition
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About This Track

"Maniac" is a track by Firewind, from the album The Premonition, released 21st March 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Firewind

Firewind

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

Lockin' 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 the wire between will and what will be

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

On the ice-thin 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 of the 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

[Guitar Solo]

[Pre-Chorus]

It can cut you like a knife

If the gift becomes the fire

On the wire between will and what will be

[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 (Before)

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

[Outro]

Dancing like she's never danced before

She's a maniac

Dancing like she's never danced before

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor

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Track details

From The Premonition

2008
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Album
The Premonition
The Premonition
Firewind
Release year
2008
  1. —The Silent Code
  2. —Spirits in a Digital World
  3. —Circle of Life
  4. —Head Up High
  5. —Into the Fire
  6. —Wild Rose
  7. —Remembered
  8. —Ride To The Rainbow's End
  9. —Angels Forgive Me
  10. —Life Foreclosed
  11. —Maniac
  12. —My Loneliness

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