Released: March 12, 2013

Songwriter: Watsky

Producer: Mikos

[Chorus]
One tape in the deck
One way to connect (All I need is one)
One moment alone
One reason to roam
One place I call home (All I need is one)
One tick on the clock
One trick up my sleeve
One thing to believe (All I need is one)
One person to love
One verse and one prayer
For one person who cares (All I need is one)
So put one hand in the air

[Verse 1]
It used to be I’d get afraid and I’d drive
Going forward’s always been the only place I can hide
With no direction I would speed a hundred miles down the coast
Until I lose the ghost that’s chasing me but never arrive
I know the night’s scary, but we’re alive and the pipe’s cherry
And I’ve got a stack of papers like a library
I’m driving seeking a beacon of light freakishly
All I needed was a speaker that might speak to me
But my CD system is so janky a cone dangles
And it dances on its chord like it’s Bo Jangles
You can work it if you hold it at a low angle
But when the bass hits it grows tangled
Come on right speaker! I’ll take everything you give me
But don’t pity me, there’s people living on a single kidney
In my shitty car I’m living large and mashing through my city
Sitting pretty I know
That I’m ready to go
(Because)

[Chorus]
One tape in the deck
One way to connect (All I need is one)
One moment alone
One reason to roam
One place I call home (All I need is one)
One tick on the clock
One trick up my sleeve
One thing to believe (All I need is one)
One person to love
One verse and one prayer
For one person who cares (All I need is one)
So put one hand in the air

[Verse 2]
For beautiful babies in Vegas on their last chip
For all my ninth life kittens hittin’ catnip
For heavy drinkers thinking they were never jack shit
You’re thinking that’s it, but hit a backflip
You got a cracked rib or, maybe a bad liver
You got a bad hip or even a bad temper
But if it’s last supper, one legged mad leper
Put on that glass slipper, you ain’t no half stepper
This ain’t no last breath, it’s only one collapsed lung
We’re holding up the bank with nothing but a cap gun
Down to your last blank
Down to my last drop
Up in the gas tank
We better have fun
Time isn’t a sacred cow
And I’m willing to take it down to the final minute or second, milking my last one
Going up for a take and I’m itching for action
All I need is one
I should remind myself that
All I need is one

[Chorus]
One tape in the deck
One way to connect (All I need is one)
One moment alone
One reason to roam
One place I call home (All I need is one)
One tick on the clock
One trick up my sleeve
One thing to believe (All I need is one)
One person to love
One verse and one prayer
For one person who cares (All I need is one)
So put one hand in the air

Watsky

A successful slam poet turned rapper, Watsky first gained attention through ‘Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry,’ and a later burst of viral success for his fast rapping. At every turn, Watsky has refused to be pigeonholed, following up his speed rap success with 2013 LP Cardboard Castles, an eccentric ode to creativity, and 2014’s Anderson. Paak-produced All You Can Do. After a hiatus to work on new material, Watsky pivots again, this time to prose, returning simultaneously with the essay collection How To Ruin Everything, published by Plume/Penguin-Random House, of which Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda writes, “funny, subversive […] you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition.” How To Ruin Everything debuted in the New York Times best-selling list. In total, he has created five studio albums and two live albums. Watsky released his fifth album, x INFINITY August 2016, describing it as his most ambitious project yet. Most recently, in January of 2019, he released a short album called Complaint.