Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Summer after high school, when we first met
We'd make out in your Mustang to Radiohead
And on my eighteenth birthday, we got matching tattoos
[Verse 2]
Used to steal your parents' liquor and climb to the roof
Talked about our future like we had a clue
Never planned that one day I'd be losing you
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
Someone said you had your tattoo removed
Saw you downtown, singing the blues
Never planned that one day I'd be losing you
[Chorus]
In another life, I would be your girl
And 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
[Bridge]
All this money can't buy me a time machine, no
I can't replace you with a million rings, no
I should've told you what you meant to me, no
'Cause now I pay the price
[Chorus]
'Cause 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 that got away, no
The one that got away
Written by: Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin