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title: "One Take"

meaning: "Ultimatum pop: one take, one chance; secrets in daylight and a relationship that never gave anything back."

year: 2006
release: "Just A Friend"
releaseType: EP

artist: "Luke Walton"

coWriters: ["No One Famous"]
credits: "Words and music by Luke Walton and No One Famous."

themes: ["Luke Walton", "Just A Friend", "heartbreak", "2006"]

lyrics: |
  One take, one chance, this is all you get.
  Take me or leave me just do it quick.
  I never asked of anything from you,
  And you never gave me anything, now we're through.

  There we're things never said, secrets that you kept,
  Away from me.
  See them in this light of day,
  Now you're losing me.

  And she said,
  One take, one chance, this is all you get.
  Take me or leave me just do it quick.
  I never asked of anything from you,
  And you never gave me anything, now we're through.

  One take, one chance, this is all you get.
  Take me or leave me just do it quick.
  I never asked of anything from you,
  And you never gave me anything, now we're through.

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Track two on [*Just A Friend*](/albums/just-a-friend/) (**2006**). Co-written with **No One Famous** (per archive credits).

The hook is a recording-studio metaphor turned relationship deadline: *one take, one chance*: no overdubs, no second passes. Verse two names what was withheld: *secrets that you kept / away from me*, now visible *in this light of day*. The chorus stays blunt: *you never gave me anything, now we're through.*

See [Catalog](/catalog/#luke-walton-band)

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