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One Thing by One Direction

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One Direction

One Thing

Release date: 18th November 2011

From Up All Night
Track 3
3:17
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About This Track

The third track from One Direction's debut album 'Up All Night', 'One Thing' is an upbeat pop-rock single built around a plucky guitar riff and a forceful, arena-ready chorus. Released as the album's third single in early 2012, it became the second single to reach American audiences. The melody carries echoes of late-Nineties boy-band pop, the production leaning into the kind of stadium-scaled hooks that defined the group's early commercial ascent. Lyrically, the song adopts the voice of someone caught in helpless infatuation, unable to name the quality that keeps them captive. One Direction sing of racing hearts and weakened resolve, the repeated plea to 'get out, get out, get out of my head' framing desire as both torment and surrender. The specifics remain vague by design; the 'one thing' stays unnamed, a placeholder for whatever makes attraction feel urgent and irrational.

"One Thing" is a track by One Direction, from the album Up All Night, released 18th November 2011. The track is 3:17 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about One Direction.

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One Direction

One Direction

Lyrics

One Thing

I've tried playin' it cool
But when I'm lookin' at you
I can't ever be brave
'Cause you make my heart race

Shot me out of the sky
You're my kryptonite
You keep making me weak
Yeah, frozen and can't breathe

Something's gotta give now
'Cause I'm dying just to make you see
That I need you here with me now
'Cause you've got that one thing

So, get out, get out, get out of my head
And fall into my arms instead
I don't, I don't, don't know what it is
But I need that one thing
And you've got that one thing

Now I'm climbing the walls
But you don't notice at all (at all)
That I'm going out of my mind
All day and all night

Something's gotta give now
'Cause I'm dying just to know your name
And I need you here with me now
'Cause you've got that one thing

So, get out, get out, get out of my head
And fall into my arms instead
I don't, I don't, don't know what it is
But I need that one thing

So, get out, get out, get out of my mind
And come on, come into my life
I don't, I don't, don't know what it is
But I need that one thing
And you've got that one thing

Woah-oh-oh-oh
Oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh-oh

You've got that one thing

Get out, get out, get out of my head
And fall into my arms instead

So, get out, get out, get out of my head
And fall into my arms instead
I don't, I don't, don't know what it is
But I need that one thing

So, get out, get out, get out of my mind (out of my mind)
And come on, come into my life
I don't, I don't, don't know what it is
But I need that one thing
And you've got that one thing

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Track details

From Up All Night

3:172011
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Album
Up All Night
Up All Night
One Direction
18th November 2011
Track number
3
Release year
2011
  1. 1What Makes You Beautiful
    3:19
  2. 2Gotta Be You
    4:05
  3. 3One Thing
    3:17
  4. 4More Than This
    3:49

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