Arctic Monkeys - One for the Road
Time: 2:09
Some out of tune guitar
Soundtrack to disaster
Ooh-ooh, one for the road

someone or something that is extremely unsuccessful
Heard in 69 songs (481M+ combined views) — most famously in "One for the Road" by Arctic Monkeys.
Updated September 24, 2026
Time: 2:09
Some out of tune guitar
Soundtrack to disaster
Ooh-ooh, one for the road

Time: 0:13
Through drought and famine, natural disasters
My baby has been around for me

Time: 1:13
Torn between the lover and the love you leave behind
You're headed for disaster 'cause you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you every time

Time: 1:03
What about us?
What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
♪

Time: 3:35
My soulmate's somewhere out in the world just waiting on me
My chef got the recipe for disaster baking slowly
My heart feels vacant and lonely, but still
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Time: 1:18
But time moves faster
Replaying your laughter, disaster
'Cause now you're so far away and I'm down
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Time: 1:12
Sometimes you might not wanna swerve but you have to
To avert a disaster, lucky no permanent damage
'Cause they hurt you so bad

Time: 0:57
I'm a fire starter
I'm a sweet disaster
I melt hearts like water

Time: 1:18
How could we know
That this was a happy disaster?
I'm glad we crashed and burned

Time: 0:15
And we shake, shake, shake the hips in relationships
Stomp out this disaster town
You'll put your eyes to the sun and say, I know

Time: 0:36
And heard the TV sayin' somethin'
About disaster in the world and
It made me wonder where I'm goin'

Time: 0:36
I am a freedom fighter, the name that history wrote
And even through disaster, eye of the tiger for hope
I'm tryna find my way back, there's no day off for heroes

Time: 1:36
Since a young boy, I been walkin' 'round with a 38
Ayy, disaster on my wrist, that shit flooded
You see my cup, you see my stick, both of them dirty

Time: 1:37
Put my coat on faster, leave my girls no faster
I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster
Callin' like a collector, sorry, I cannot answer

Time: 0:25
Can you make me happy? Can you keep me happy?
Can you distract me from all the disaster?
Can you touch on me and not call me after?

Time: 2:00
He's putting on a show
While preventing a disaster
I'm wiser, meaner, cooler

Time: 0:10
You see the hate, that they servin' on a platter
So what we gon' have, dessert or disaster?
I never thought I'd be in love like this

Time: 1:47
But these words I record got me ballin', Jordan
More than a rapper, this a natural disaster
Boy, I'm meaner than Katrina mixed with Gina, "Shut up, Cole!"

Time: 1:59
I got that Chiquita banana clip for the tool
Meet a disaster, pity the fool
Eat a catastrophe, swallow the truth

Time: 3:09
I'm a falling in
Disasters are just another star falling in my yard
John says to live above hell my will is well

Time: 1:56
I will be the one to turn this car around
'Cause it's headed for disaster
No happily ever after

Time: 1:55
In a while will the smile on my face turn to plaster
Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster
For the race of my head and my face is moving much faster

Time: 3:50
♪
And bring the dark disaster

Time: 0:42
We kiss just to make up, we love just to break up
We head for disaster, but live for the danger
We count

Time: 0:51
You got something that I like, but I might regret it
Me and you were a disaster
And you're only a danger to me

Time: 1:03
Tell me my friend, how many nights you cried
Disaster and disgrace
The king has lost his crown

Time: 1:31
God, I love a hopeless bastard
I'm at my best in a disaster
Can you make my heart beat faster?

Time: 1:27
I feel the metal in my bones
I'm a natural disaster
You're the morning after all my storms

Time: 0:46
It's just a matter of time 'til you see the dagger
It's a special of mine to cause disaster
So prepare for the impact, and brace your heart

Time: 0:53
I'm missing you
You're not around and I'm a complete disaster
I'm missing you

Time: 1:19
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
♪

Time: 0:34
Repent, repent, repent, repent
'Cause we're two steps away from a real disaster
Think they're the boss but a who are the master?

Time: 0:33
So tell me what do you prescribe for these symptoms
(Heart beatin' faster and work is a disaster?)
I'm lovesick when you're not around, ch-ch-check me over

Time: 2:15
Face to face, tell the truth, no holding back (no holding back)
We put in work, overcame all the disasters (all the disasters)
Time apart brought us right here where we are (where we're meant to be)

Time: 0:40
With all of your money your poor can be fed
You strut around and you flirt with disaster
Never really carin' just what comes after

Time: 0:26
Leaving my problems
And the world's disasters
I'm heading for the open sky

Time: 3:26
And there you are (saying, we have the moon, so now the stars)
When all you see (is near disaster gazing down on you and me)
And there you're standing (saying we have the whole world in our hands)

Time: 1:43
You were after
Broken glass, complete disaster
There's the girl that you were after

Time: 1:13
Right around the bend
Is a coming disaster
Countdown to the end and we're headed there faster

Time: 0:52
But he's so beautiful
Such a beautiful disaster
And if I could hold on

Time: 0:44
And you couldn't reply for three days
Cos I'm stupid and I'm damaged and you're a disaster
When you walk into the room

Time: 0:34
What I'm about to say
Could mean the world's disaster
Could change your joy and laughter

Time: 1:49
Started from a punk now to be a high roller
Youngest, reckless, crazy, disaster
Mac-11 blaster, and I run faster

Time: 1:44
Have a good time
Maybe I'm laughing my way to disaster
Maybe my race has been run

Time: 1:14
All her life has
Been one long disaster
Then she tells me

Time: 4:09
Can we run any faster
To total disaster
I'm going down in the flames

Time: 0:33
Bring something larger for them man
Disaster, disaster for them man
Them man, them man

Time: 0:33
Go faster, young master
You're breathing disaster
'Cause these human hands need a human touch

Time: 0:35
The quake causin' tidal waves (Waves)
Natural disaster
When we love, the world breaks (The world breaks)

Time: 0:57
My prediction will surely be true
The impending disaster it looms
And the whole of the village is doomed

Time: 0:45
Begging me not to leave
Complicated disaster
And as I struggle to understand

Time: 0:28
Barely here to tell her tale
Rolled in on a sea of disaster
Rolled out on a mainline rail

Time: 0:47
And give thanks to the master
That through all the disaster
We're still here together after

Time: 2:31
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
♪

Time: 0:18
Slipping away, just a heartbeat from disaster
Nothing could make me stay, close your eyes and I'll be gone

Time: 1:29
Left a message that I'd be in town, I wish I hadn't sent it
I'm playin', I'm playing, playing with disaster
You're so close, I almost feel you breathing

Time: 1:54
From San Francisco to Ohio
I've seen beauty and disaster
Cocky young roosters and little chicks

Time: 2:37
I'm sinking faster and faster
Between heaven and disaster
Sorry if I made you feel like

Time: 1:51
Am I just waitin' in vain?
Oh, I believe in love and disaster
Sometimes the two are just the same

Time: 0:27
And you know that feeling
You get just before a beautiful disaster
Right on the top

Time: 2:13
Instead of slowing down the pace, we keep picking up speed
Disasters getting closer every time we meet
Going ninety miles an hour down a dead end street

Time: 0:47
What's the use in looking for an answer?
I might find out it could be a disaster
Hold on to your own time

Time: 2:45
And no one can stop this flow from flowin' on
A flow master of disaster with a sound that's gone
I'll take a little shout out to my Dad and Mom

Time: 0:43
Can be a sure cure for all that ails!
Man knows it only mean disaster,
For he'll never be the master of

Time: 1:07
♪
If the winds of disaster
Have blown hard through your night

Time: 1:10
The panic, the laughter
The stink of disaster
Disaster, disaster

Time: 0:24
Those eyes that smile, I know all the while
I'm courtin' disaster
You call my tune, I just obey it

Time: 1:37
but you know that I can't do that
It would be a disaster
It would be a disaster

Time: 2:05
At each and every corner
With nothing but disaster
