KATY PERRY - THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Summer After High School When We First Met
We'd Make Out In Your Mustang To Radiohead
And On My 18th Birthday, We Got Matching Tattoos
Used To Steal Your Parents Liquor And Climb To The Rood
Talk About Our Future Like We Had A Clue
Never Planned That One Day, I'd Be Losing You
In Another Life, I Would Be Your 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
I Was June And You Were Johnnny Cash
Never One Without The Other, We Made A Pact
Sometimes When I Miss You, I Put Those Records On, Whoa-Oh
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
But In Another Life, I Would Be Your 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 O-O-O-O-O-One
The O-O-O-O-O-One
The O-O-O-O-O-One
The One That Got Away
All This Money Can't Buy Me A Time Machine, No-Oh
Can't Replace You With A Million Rings, No-Oh-Oh
I Should've Told You What You Meant To Me, Whoa-Oh-Oh
'Ause Now I Pay The Price
In Another Life, I Would Be Your 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 O-O-O-O-O-One (The One)
The O-O-O-O-O-One (The One)
The O-O-O-O-O-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
SONG FACTS
Writer(s): Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin
Producer(s): Dr. Luke, Max Martin
This Sweet Pop Ballad About Lost Love Finds Katy And Her Guy Get Matching Tattoos On Her 18th Birthday. Later She Hears That He's Got His Tattoo Removed, So She Knows The Relationship Is Over. The Singer Penned The Song With Dr. Luke And Max Martin With The Latter Two Also Producing The Track.
The Song Finds Perry Calling Out Her Love For Radiohead ("We Make Out In Your Mustang To Radiohead") And Johnny Cash ("I Was June And You Were My Johnny Cash").
The Song Was Chosen To Be The Sixth Single From Teenage Dream. "I'm So Pleased To Select 'The One That Got Away' As My Sixth Single Because This Song Shows A Very Different Side Of Me That I Haven't Shown With My Past Singles On This Record," Said Perry. "I Think That Everyone Can Relate To This Song. I Wrote (It) About When You Promise Someone Forever, But You End Up Not Being Able To Follow Through. It's A Bittersweet Story. Hopefully, The Listener Learns From Hearing It And Never Has To Say They Had 'The One' Get Away."
The Floria Sigismondi Directed Music Video Finds Perry Reminiscing About Her Old Flame.
The Song Peaked At #4 On The Hot 100 In Its Original Chart Run Despite The Price Of The Single On Itunes Being Lowered From $1.29 To 69 Cents In An Attempt To Encourage More Buyers. In A Calculated Move To Make The Song A Record Breaking Sixth Chart-Topper From One Album, Perry Recorded A Remix With A New Verse By Rapper B.O.B. However This New Version Only Pushed The Song Up One Place To #3 Making The Song Truly The #1 That Got Away.
The Song Might Have Failed To Reach The Peak Position On The Hot 100 But It Did Become The Sixth # 1 From Teenage Dream On The Radio-Based Billboard Pop Songs Chart. Previously, No Album Had Yielded More Than Four Pop Songs Chart-Toppers.
The Teaser For The Video Was Narrated By Stevie Nicks. Speaking About The First Time She Saw The Clip, She Said It Reminded Her Of Her Split From Former Lover And Fleetwood Mac Bandmate Lindsey Buckingham.
Katy Perry Was Romantically Linked With The Singer Josh Groban In The Late 2000s. Speaking To James Corden In 2017, During Her Witness World Wide Live Stream, Perry Said: "'Who's The Song 'The One That Got Away' About?' - That's Groban... He's One Of My Good Friends."