"One Way Ticket" is the leading single from British

United Kingdom

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 rock band The Darkness's second studio album, One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back. It reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

. Its lyrics explicitly deal with cocaine

Cocaine

Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...

 use and addiction.

The song contains frequent references to taking and being on cocaine, one of the reasons Justin Hawkins

Justin Hawkins

Justin David Hawkins is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist of The Darkness, alongside his brother, guitarist Dan Hawkins...

 was admitted to rehab.

The beginning of the song features a pan flute solo, before the starting riff begins.

The cover art features a stylised British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

 Aptis

APTIS

APTIS was the Accountancy and Passenger Ticket Issuing System used on Rail transport in Great Britain until 2007.It was widely known as the All-Purpose Ticket-Issuing System, a description which was used during the development of the...

 ticket from their hometown of Lowestoft

Lowestoft

Lowestoft is a town in the English county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast and is the most easterly point of the United Kingdom. It is north-east of London, north-east of Ipswich and south-east of Norwich...

in Suffolk surrounded by fire.

Chart positions

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	36
Austrian Singles Chart	62
Danish Singles Chart	20
Finnish Singles Chart	14
German Singles Chart	75
Irish Singles Chart	22
Italian Singles Chart	17
New Zealand Singles Chart	15
Norwegian Singles Chart	19
Swedish Singles Chart	31
UK Singles Chart	8