"The Only One I Know" is the second single by the English rock band The Charlatans. It was their first top-ten hit, reaching no. 9 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] In the UK it was the highest-charting single from the Some Friendly album. Its best showing in the US was on the Modern Rock Chart, where it reached no. 5 in September 1990.[3][4]The song contained lines directly lifted from The Byrds' 1967 song "Everybody’s Been Burned,"[1] while the melody prominently features an organ riff lifted from the Deep Purple rendition of the song Hush [5]