The Best of One Way

"One Way or Another" is a song by American rock band Blondie from their 1978 album Parallel Lines. Lyrically, the song was inspired by Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry's experience with a stalker in the early 1970s, an incident which forced her to move away from New Jersey. Harry wrote the lyrics as if an 'ex-boyfriend' was stalking her, to give the song an element of humour. The song's music was composed by bassist Nigel Harrison, who introduced the Ventures-influenced track to keyboardist Jimmy Destri.