the one that got away

the summer after high school when we first met

we'd make out in my mustang to radiohead

and on my 18th birthday

we got matching tattoos

used to steal my parents' liquor

and climb to the roof

we'd talk about our futures

like we had a clue

never planned that one day

i'd be losing you

'cause in another life

you would be my girl

we'd keep all our promises

be us against the world

in another life

oh

i would make you stay

so i won't have to say

you were the one that got away

the one that got away

you were june and i was your johnny cash

never one without the other

we made a pact

sometimes when i miss you

i turn those records on

someone said you had your tattoo removed

i saw you downtown singing the blues

it's time to face the music

i'm no longer your muse

but in another life

you would be my girl

and we'd keep all our promises

be us against the world

and in another life

oh

i would make you stay

so i don't have to say

you were the one that got away

the one that got away

all this money can't buy me a time machine

no

i can't replace you with a million rings

i should've told you what you meant to me

'cause now i pay the price

in another life

you would be my girl

we'd keep all our promises

be us against the world

in another life

oh

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 o-o-o-o-o-one

the o-o-o-o-o-one

the one

the o-o-o-o-o-one

the one that got away