[00:01.23]Artist:julie roberts [00:01.94]Songs Title:the chance [00:03.43] [00:30.77]I found a book that my mama kept [00:35.65]Filled with secrets she hid [00:41.23]And in a dusty old attic, one mornin I read [00:51.62]About a woman I never met [00:56.37]Who had dreams just like mine [01:01.61]With every page that I turned, the words came alive [01:10.47]Wish I could roll out of town like a run-away train [01:16.02]I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane [01:21.20]I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance [01:29.95]If I just had the chance [01:43.00]A tear fell on that faded page [01:47.92]Cause this was somebody else [01:53.24]Not the mama I knew who never thought of herself [02:03.67]But the times, they were different then [02:08.16]And lines just didn't get crossed [02:13.65]And these words that she wrote, they somehow got lost [02:22.20]Wish I could roll out of town like a run-away train [02:27.63]I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane [02:32.88]I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance [02:41.93]If I just had the chance [03:08.27]The chance that she never had [03:12.71]Is now the gift that is mine [03:17.66]And out here on this road, I'm makin up for lost time [03:28.33]Yeah, I am my mother's child [03:33.19]And tonight in this car [03:38.62]I've got her words in my suitcase and her dreams in my heart [03:47.08]As I roll out of town like a run-away train [03:52.91]I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane [03:57.98]I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance [04:06.72]While I still have the chance [04:15.52]I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance [04:24.85]While I still have the chance