Summer after high school, when we first met
We'd make out in my Mustang to Radiohead
And on my eighteenth birthday, we got matching tattoos
Used to steal my 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

In another life, you would be my 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

You were June, and I was 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, I was singing the blues
It's time to face the music, you're no longer my muse

In another life, you would be my 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 things, no
I should've told you what you meant to me, whoa
'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, 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