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The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away by Katy Perry is about the nostalgia of her first love and the regrets over the things that might have been done differently. The lyrics reflect on loss and longing for a youthful love, symbolizing someone who was significant but, due to life circumstances, drifted away.

Key: G

Introduction:

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Summer after high school when we first met
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We make out in your mustang to Radiohead
 Am                                                                           F 
And on my 18th birthday we got matching tattoos
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Used to steal your parent's liquor and climb to the roof
 Em 
Talk about our future like we had a clue
 Am                                                                             F 
Never planned that one day I'd be losing you
                         C                                     Em 
In another life I would be your girl
                                 Am                                                 F 
We keep all our promises be us against the world
                         C                                       Em 
In another life I would make you stay
                                       Am                                                       F 
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
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The one that got away.
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I was June and you were my Johnny Cash
             Em 
Never one without the other we made a pact
 Am                                                   F 
Sometimes when I miss you I put those records on... woe
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Someone said you had your tattoo removed
 Em 
Saw you downtown singing the blues
 Am                                                                                         F 
It's time to face the music I'm no longer your muse
                               C                                     Em 
But in another life I would be your girl
                                 Am                                                 F 
We keep all our promises be us against the world
                         C                                       Em 
In another life I would make you stay
                                       Am                                                       F 
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
 F 
The one that got away.
The one the one the one
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All his money can't buy me a time machine. No.
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Can't replace you with a million rings. No.
 Em                                                   Am                     F 
I shoulda told you what you meant to me. Woe.
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Cause now I pay the price.
                       C                                       Em 
In another life I would be your girl
                                 Am                                                 F 
We keep all our promises be us against the world
                         C                                       Em 
In another life I would make you stay
                                       Am                                                       F 
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
 F 
The one that got away.
The one the one the one
                         C                                       Em 
In another life I would make you stay
                                       Am                                                       F 
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
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The one that got away.

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