Lyrics

Summer after high   when we first  
We make-out in your Mustang to Radiohead
And on my 18th Birthday
We got matching  

Used to @@ your parents' liquor
And   to the  
Talk about our  
Like we had a  
Never   that one day
I'd be   you

In another  
I would be your girl
We keep all our  
Be us   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

I was June and you were my Johnny Cash
Never one   the other We made a  
Sometimes when I   you
I   those   on (whoa)

Someone said you had your tattoo  
Saw you downtown   the Blues
It's time to face the  
I'm no longer your  

In another life
I would be your girl
We 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   (No)
Can't replace you with a million   (No)
I should told you what you   to me (Whoa)
Cause now i pay the  

In another life
I would be your girl
We 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

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
Legend

Meaning

Katy Perry once said that this Song was about your first love, which would make since as to why this song sounds so deep, as you never forget your first love.

The one that got away:
A person who you we're originally supposed to end up with, but due to a cause of fate or by consequences cause by you the relationship failed and as time goes by you wonder what you and that person could have been, making them the one that got away.

Vocabulary

make-out

US, slang (kiss, touch sexually) To act; pretend.
Will made out like he didn’t care that his team lost the championship, but I know he was really upset

not have a clue

to have no knowledge about something, or to be unable to remember something
I don’t have a clue what I did with my baseball glove.