The One That Got Away

Album: Teenage Dream (2010)
Charted: 18 3
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  • Summer after high school, when we first met
    We make-out in your Mustang to Radiohead
    And on my eighteenth birthday, we got matching tattoos

    Used to steal your parents 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 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, whoa

    Someone said you had your tattoo removed
    Saw you downtown, singing the blues
    It's time to face the music, I'm no longer your muse

    In another life, I would be your girl
    We 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
    Oh the one, the one, the one, the one, the one

    All this money can't buy me a time machine, no
    Can't replace you with a million rings, no
    I should'a told you what you meant to me, whoa
    'Cause now I pay the price

    In another life, I would be your girl
    We 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, oh oh oh

    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 Writer/s: Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • John from Phoenix, Azvery depressing song and video. I let one get away.
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