The Success - the ones that got away

Friday night, I'm on my way home They ought to make work a crime I'm home for the weekend I'm gonna make the most of my time There's a rock and roll singer on the television Giving up his music, gonna take up religion Deserted rock and roll To try to save his soul Saturday night, I got a gig with the band Playing the electric guitar Someday I'm gonna make it Gonna be a super duper star Get a big flashy car And a house for my Mum The big break better happen soon 'Cause I'm pushing twenty-one Just like Cinderella when she couldn't go to the ball A voice said "I'm your fairy manager, you shall play the Carnegie Hall" I gotta give up my day job to become a heartthrob I may go far if I smash my guitar Away for the weekend I've gotta play some one-night stands Six for the tax man And one for the band Back in the studio To make our latest number one Take two hundred and seventy six You know, this used to be fun Monday morning, I just got home Six and the birds are singing I need a drink and my clothes are wet Oooh and my ears are still ringing There's a rock and roll singer bopping on the TV He used to be a preacher but now he sings in a major key Amended his decision To the new religion

I'm the one Who opened up, ready for a connection I'm the one Brave enough to say how I was feeling I'm the one waiting by the phone The one who is home alone 'Til I realized you were only messing around Yeah, you played it like a game Never called it by its name Isn't it a shame how Now I'm the one that got away The kiss you never tasted Tell me that you hate it Hate that I'm no longer in your reach If I can't hear you say it Maybe you can't change it, but if you never If you never put it on the line How am I gonna sign for it? Yeah, you never You never let me know I'm what you want Maybe that's why I'm the one The one that got away The kiss you never tasted Now, I'm the one that got away Tell me that you hate it I'm the one Who's crying over you in a bath on the weekend But I'm the one Who isn't scared to dive into love on the deep end You're the one lying to your friends You're the one who can't pretend That there are no consequences to what you do But the truth is that it's costly Baby, 'cause you lost me Soon enough you're gonna see That I'm the one that got away The kiss you never tasted Tell me that you hate it Hate that I'm no longer in your reach If I can't hear you say it Maybe you can't change it, but if you never (if you never, if you never) If you never put it on the line How am I gonna sign for it? Yeah, you never You never let me know I'm what you want Maybe that's why The one that got away The kiss you never tasted Tell me that you hate it Hate that I'm no longer in your reach (your reach) If I can't hear you say it Maybe you can't change it, but if you never If you never put it on the line How am I gonna sign for it? Yeah, you never You never let me know I'm what you want Maybe that's why I'm The one that got away The kiss you never tasted Now. I'm the one that got away Tell me that you hate it

Well, the gigolo's jumpin' salty Ain't no trade out on the streets Half past the unlucky And the hawk's a front row seat Dressed in full orchestration Stage door Johnny's got to pay And sent him home Talking 'bout the one that got away Well, could've been on Easy Street Could've been a wheel With irons in the fire And all them business deals But the last of the big time losers Shouted before he drove away I'll be right back as soon as I crack The one that got away The ambulance drivers, they don't give a shit They just want to get off work And the short stop And the victim already gone berserk And the shroud tailor measures him For a deep six holiday The stiff is froze, the case is closed On the one that got away Now Jim Crow's directing traffic With them cemetery blues With them peculiar looking trousers Them old Italian shoes And a wooden kimono was all ready To drop in San Francisco Bay But he's mumbling something All about the one that got away Costello was the champion At the St.Moritz Hotel And the best this side of Fairfax Reliable sources tell But his reputation is at large And he's at Ben Frank's every day Waiting for the one that got away He's got a snake skin sport shirt And he looks like Vincent Price With a little piece of chicken And he's carving off a slice But someone tipped her off She'll be doing a Houdini now any day She shook his hustle A Greyhound bus'll take the one that got away Andre is at the piano Behind the Ivar in the sewers With a buck a shot for pop tunes And a fin for guided tours He could've been in Casablanca He stood in line out there all day Now he's spilling whiskey And learning songs about the one that got away Well, I've lost my equilibrium And my car keys and my pride The tattoo parlor's warm And so I hustle there inside And the grinding of the buzz-saw "What you want that thing to say?" I say, "Just don't misspell her name Buddy, she's the one that got away"

She rolled in My little sandy town She spent the summer there A couple houses down Well it was magic in the air When she caught my eye We shared three short months And one long goodbye She was the one that got away The one that wrecked my heart I should've never let her go I should've begged her to stay She was the one that got away Yeah, the one that got away Well she kissed my lips Down on Ocean Drive She set my world on fire On the fourth of July We wrote our names in the sand Under the star-soaked sky But it washed away like she did With the rising tide She was the one that got away The one that wrecked my heart I should've never let her go I should've begged her to stay She was the one that got away Every summer that rolls around I'm looking over my shoulder Wishing I could see her face Wishing I could hold her She was the one that got away The one that wrecked my heart I should've never let her go I should've begged her to stay She was the one that got away Yeah, she was the one that got away The one that wrecked my heart I should've never let her go I should've begged her to stay She was the one that got away She was the one that got away She rolled in My little sandy town She spent the summer there A couple houses down

You had me I won't lie But now you don't You'll have to cope without Me in your after life You lost control and heaven holds me now Burn my house down to the floor boards Play a sad song on my heart chords Take your demons out for dancing in my brain Make me doubt till I'm exhausted Offer hope then say you lost it But I'll always be the soul that got away Tempt me all you want Your gold is fake And those old ways don't sound Like they could beat this love Go on and rage You'll never take His crown Burn my house down to the floor boards Play a sad song on my heart chords Take your demons out for dancing in my brain Make me doubt till I'm exhausted Offer hope then say you lost it But I'll always be the soul that got away Yes I'll always be the soul that got away You can try to win me back but I ain't leaving You can try to make my life a living hell But You can't walk on golden streets so I'm forever out of reach Cause I'll always be the soul that got away Yes I'll always be the soul that got away

Summer after high school when we first met We make out in your Mustang to Radiohead And on your 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 you would be my girl We keep all our promises, be us against the world 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 You were dreaming I was your Johnny Cash Never one without the other we made a pact Sometimes when I miss you I put those records on ohh 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 you would be my 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 these money can't buy me a time machine, no I can't replace you with a million rings, no I should've told you what you meant to me, whoa 'Cause now I pay the price In another life you would be my 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 The one The one The one The one that got away