One Way Ticket (The Darkness song)

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"One Way Ticket"
One Way Ticket.jpg
Single by the Darkness
from the album One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back
B-side
  • "Wanker"
  • "Grief Hammer"
Released14 November 2005 (2005-11-14) [1]
Genre Glam rock, hard rock
Length4:28
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Justin Hawkins, Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain
Producer(s) Roy Thomas Baker
The Darkness singles chronology
"Love Is Only a Feeling"
(2004)
"One Way Ticket"
(2005)
"Is It Just Me?"
(2006)

"One Way Ticket" is the lead single from British rock band the Darkness' second studio album, One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back . It reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart. Its lyrics explicitly deal with cocaine use and addiction. The song contains frequent references to taking and being on cocaine, one of the reasons Justin Hawkins was admitted to rehab.

Contents

The beginning of the song features a pan flute solo, then a noise of one snorting cocaine, before the starting riff begins. The cover art features a stylised British Rail Aptis ticket, taken from their hometown of Lowestoft, in Suffolk, surrounded by fire.

Track listings

  1. "One Way Ticket" (Explicit Album Edit) - 3:42
  2. "Wanker" - 3:07
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Explicit Album Edit) - 3:42
  2. "Grief Hammer" - 3:12
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Explicit Album Edit) - 3:42
  2. "Wanker" - 3:07
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Full Explicit Version) - 3:41
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Radio Edit) - 3:29
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Clean Album Edit) - 3:38
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Explicit Album Edit) - 3:42
  2. "Wanker" - 3:07
  3. "Grief Hammer" - 3:12
  4. "One Way Ticket" (Music Video) - 3:45
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Music Video) - 3:45
  2. "One Way Ticket" (Making of the Video) - 2:00
  3. "One Way Ticket" (Explicit Album Edit) - 3:42
  4. "Grief Hammer" - 3:12
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Explicit Album Edit) - 3:42
  2. "Grief Hammer" - 3:12
  1. "One Way Ticket" (Explicit Album Edit) - 3:42
  2. "Wanker" - 3:07

Chart positions

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart36
Austrian Singles Chart62
Danish Singles Chart20
Finnish Singles Chart14
German Singles Chart75
Irish Singles Chart22
Italian Singles Chart17
New Zealand Singles Chart15
Norwegian Singles Chart19
Swedish Singles Chart31
UK Singles Chart8

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