One Way Ticket (The Darkness song)

"One Way Ticket"
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]
GenreGlam rock, hard rock
Length4:28
LabelAtlantic
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 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.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 12 November 2005. p. 37.