One Way Ticket

“One Way Ticket” stands as the defining moment of the ‘Severance’ era — the song Robert O’Connor describes as his “signature track,” and the one he would play to anyone hearing his music for the first time. Written spontaneously during a single day in 2022, the track was born from urgency and instinct. Gareth Shortland sent Robert a backing track that immediately felt like “the song he’d been searching for his entire career.” Robert wrote the verses on his commute to work, and the explosive chorus on the journey home — driven by the fear someone else might claim the instrumental first.