The one that got away

Summer after high school when we first met  
We make out in your Mustang to Radio head  
And on my 18th 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 plan that one day I'd be losing you

And in another life I would be your girl  
We keep all our promises, be us against the world  
And in other 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 dreaming you were my Johnny Cash  
Never one, we got the other, we made a pact  
Sometimes when I miss you, I put those records on 

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
 
And in another life I would be your girl  
We keep all our promises, be us against the world  
And 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

All these money can't buy me a time machine, no  
Can't replace you with a million rings, no  
I should've told you what you meant to me  
'Cause now I pay the price
In another life I would be your girl  
We keep all our promises, be us against the world  

And 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

And 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