Lyrics Sam Tsui – 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 (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

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