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 (Whoa) 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 (Nooooo) No, I can't replace you with a million rings (Ohhhhh) I should've told you what you meant to me (Ohhhhh) '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