The One That Got Away Lyrics

If you're looking for Lyrics of 'The One That Got Away', here you go. But I must tell you that the MV production is fucking crap, I felt being deceived, at least.

I heard this song on one sunny morning drive to Office. The rythm was cool, the melody was awesome and the lyrics was something I like. That reminds me of my younger days. I hit google with this phrase ' talk about future like we had a clue' something what I'd been through in the past.

I was very excited about the song, so I went on searching the MV from Youtube. I listen to the song whilst checking out the lyhrics trying to understand the full meaning of it. I'm not sure if you'll do the same when come to a song you really like, anyways this is me, I 'll search hi-lo relentlessly just to learn it.

So I got the lyrics and learnt that it was Katy Perry's. Hey, I like her as I like few other of her songs. Anyways this post is not about how much I like about her but about The One That Got Away.

The MV was cool and I got moved by the scenes. It begins with very old uptrend couple having their cold conversation, she doesn't felt love or being loved. She begins musing about her ex whom she met during her teen. They had good time, madly in love and had matching tattoo. Over one big fight, he got upset, drove the car away and crashed into  cliff.... (my mind was like a car screeching to break) 'Wait, the lyrics said otherwise!!'.  I revert to the MV and lyrics back and forth, there go mismatches between Lyrics and MV and the overall production:

1. Lyrics said he started new life but MV shown he died in car crash!! What's this? How could the MV production disaligned with the lyric? Miscomm?? I was like wtf .==. HA.



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

Combination of audio and visual exalt the connection to the song, as such mismatches like this a BIG NO NO!

2. In the MV, she played as a very old woman leading an uppertrend life. What make her doesn't satisfied about? Ya, first love was always memorable. But HELLOOO, she's already an old white haired woman, probably at her 70s, hasn't she learnt to move on? Hasn't she learnt to accept the fact that it was already a past? Further more musing at this age, isn't it too late? I wonder was it a casting error? Who was the producer?

3. The very first time I heard 'In another life', I couldn't quite register with it as i never learnt the west believed in 'Another life', aren't they are the eternal life devotees? Again is this a cultural exchange?  or It's another error? Or I'm just too shallow?

Anyways, if you like this song below is the lyrics and the MV is embeded, It's a nice song still if you're not  particular about mismatches.

The One That Got Away

Summer after high school when we first met
We 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 roof
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 my Johnny Cash
Never one without the other we made a pact
Sometimes when I miss you
I put those records on (Whoa)

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 [x3]
The one that got away

[Bridge:]
All this money can't buy me a time machine (Nooooo)
It can't replace you with a million rings (Nooooo)
I should've told you what you meant to me (Whoa)
'Cause 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 [x3]

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

Updates:

I found the production team. I think they seriously need to relook into commercializing this MV.

Music video by Katy Perry performing The One That Got Away.
Directed by: Floria Sigismondi / Produced by: Jannie McInnes & Danny Lockwood