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

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-thin little 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

There's a cold connective heat

Struggling, stretching for defeat

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

Instrumental

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, 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