I found a book that my mama kept   Filled with secrets she hid   And in a dusty old attic, one mornin' I read   About a woman I never met   Who had dreams just like mine   With every page that I turned, her words came alive      Wish I could roll out of town like a run-away train   I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane   Never sit on the sidelines of life, I'd dance every dance   If I just had the chance      A tear fell on that faded page   'Cause this was somebody else   Not the mama I knew who never thought of herself   But the times, they were different then   And lines just didn't get crossed   And these words that she wrote, they somehow got lost      Wish I could roll out of town like a run-away train   I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane   Never sit on the sidelines of life, I'd dance every dance   If I just had the chance      The chance that she never had   Is now the gift that is mine   And out here on this road, I'm makin' up for lost time   I am my mother's child and tonight in this car   I got her words in my suitcase   And her dreams in my heart      As I roll out of town like a run-away train   I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane   Never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance   While I still have the chance      I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance   While I still have the chance