KATY PERRY ARCHIVE

The One That Got Away (Lyrics)

Summer after high school
When we first met
We'd make out in your Mustang
To Radiohead
And on my 18th birthday
We got matching tattoos

Used to steal your parent's liquor
And climb to the roof
Talk about our future
Like we had a clue
Never planned that one day
I'd be losing you

In another life
I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises
Be us against the world
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away

I was June and you were
My Johnny Cash
Never one without the other
We made a pact
Sometimes when I miss you
I put those records on

Someone said you had
Your tattoo removed
Saw you downtown
Singing the blues
It's time to face this music
I'm not longer your muse
In another life
I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises
Be us against the world
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away
The one...
The one...
The one...
The one that got away

All this money
Can't buy me a time machine, no
Can't replace you
With a million rings, no
I should've told you
What you meant to me, whoa
'Cause now I play the price

In another life
I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises
Be us against the world
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away
The one (the one)
The one (the one)
The one (the one)
In another life
I would make you stay
So I don't have to say
You were the one that got away
The one that got away