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There are 15 misheard song lyrics for Michael Sembello on amIright currently.
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"Maniac"
It's a bush of woods.
It's a push-shove world.
"Maniac"
It's a hard warm place of mystery
Touch it, but can't hold it.
It's a hard won place of mystery
Touch it, but can't hold it.
"Maniac"
It's a hard wooden place of mystery
Touch it, but can't hold it.
It's a hard won place of mystery
Touch it, but can't hold it.
"Maniac"
It's a push of the world, but there's always a chance
If the hunger stays the night.
It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance
If the hunger stays alive.
"Maniac"
It's hard one place of ministry
That's what she came for, yeah.
It's a hard won place of mystery
Touch it, but can't hold it.
"Maniac"
Just a still town girl on a Saturday night
Just a steel-town girl on a Saturday night
"Maniac"
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart, changing woman into life.
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart, changing movement into light.
"Maniac"
On the ice-build iron sanity is a place most never see.
On the ice blue line of insanity is a place most never see.
"Maniac"
She's a maniac, maniac on the phone.
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor.
"Maniac"
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know.
She's a maniac, maniac, at your door.
There is an urban legend about this song (not sure if true) that it was originally written by Sembello as a song about a slasher/murderer. Presumably he modified the lyric when he got the Flashdance gig. This second chorus phrase 'at your door' may be a remnant of that original lyric.
"Maniac"
She's a maniac, maniac, el sprasso
or
She's a maniac, maniac, that's for sure
or
She's a maniac, maniac, on the phone.
She's a maniac, maniac, on the floor.
"Maniac"
She's a maniac, maniac, on the phone.
She's a maniac, maniac, on the floor.
"Maniac"
She's a maniac, maniac, that's for sure
She's a maniac, maniac, on the floor
"Maniac"
There's a coconut in heat
Stuggling, stretching for the beat.
There's a cold, kinetic heat
Struggling, stretching for the beat.
"Maniac"
There's a cold connective heat, struggling, stretching for defeat.
There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat.
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