Ticket
Andalusion Lyrics

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I, had the chance to be like you,
I gave it away for the chance,
To be myself.

I, met a man unlike myself
He chose a way to stay lonely.

Take a ticket,

on your own
Stick with it,
You're nearly home
Take a ticket,
The easy way

Take a ticket,
For the day.

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Andalusion's song "Ticket" explore the idea of conformity versus individuality. The singer reflects on a choice they made in the past, to not try and be like someone else and instead embrace their own unique self. The line "I gave it away for the chance, to be myself" shows that this decision was a difficult one, but ultimately the singer decided that being true to oneself was more important.

Later in the song, the singer mentions meeting someone who made a different choice - to stay lonely. It's not clear whether this person chose to isolate themselves intentionally or if it was a consequence of their decision to not conform to societal norms. Either way, this contrast with the singer's own choice highlights the importance of choosing one's own path in life, regardless of what others might think.

Overall, "Ticket" is a reminder to embrace one's individuality and not be afraid to take the road less traveled. It's a message that's particularly relevant in today's society, where there's often pressure to fit in and conform.

Line by Line Meaning

I, had the chance to be like you,
I was given an opportunity to conform to society's expectations and be like you.

I gave it away for the chance,
I rejected that opportunity and took a chance to be different and true to myself.

To be myself.
I chose to embrace my true identity and live authentically.

I, met a man unlike myself
I encountered a person who was completely different from me in every way.

He chose a way to stay lonely.
He made the conscious decision to isolate himself from others and live a solitary life.

Take a ticket,
Choose a path in life.

on your own
Make choices independently without being influenced by others.

Stick with it,
Commit to that path and do not give up when times get tough.

You're nearly home
You are close to achieving your goals.

Take a ticket,
Choose a path in life.

The easy way
Take the path of least resistance.

Take a ticket,
Choose a path in life.

For the day.
Make choices based on short-term benefits and immediate gratification rather than long-term goals and sustainability.

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

MAXIMUS

3y↑11

As a Spaniard I personally think the change we are seeing now will be beneficial for the Spanish HSR network.

Many reasonably argue that the government has already spent a lot of money on the rail infrastructure with up until now limited results in ridership, and it's true.

But that being said, considering how Spain's HSR has been one of the cheapest to construct per km and now boasts an already masive infrastructure I have always been of the opinion that we should make the most of it.

And finally we are seeing some major progress with things such as the implementation of this new service alongside with the introduction of foreign companies to the levante HSR to compete and increase competivenes and ridership.

This alongside with the future talgo high speed trains which are cheaper to run, more capable and have variable gauge at 300kmh+ speeds which is a huge step in technology.

Overall even though there has already been a lot of investment put into this which we haven't seen returns for so far I think that with services such as these we will slowly see fruits of the labour invested.

All comments from YouTube:

American Rail Club

3y↑29

Thumbs-up if you wish we had something like this stateside! 🚅🇺🇸

Kendall Tawes

We did have a fairly good discounts this year. I just paid $38 to go to and from New York from Charlottesville, VA. That's 344 Miles.

Brutus Tan the III

Can’t wait to watch this in its entirety
Edit: both it unfolding and this video itself

MAXIMUS

3y↑11

Álvaro

3y↑21

Fastest scheduled service from Madrid to Barcelona is 2h,30 min!

Stephen Beets

3y↑3

By my own calculations (using miles and miles per hour), the slower 3-hour trip has an average speed of 121 MPH. The faster 2.5-hour trip has an average speed of 155 MPH for the same trip and distance traveled. Even at the slower 121 MPH, that's quite a bit better than Amtrak's typical average speed of 85-90 MPH (top speed being 110 MPH). No, it ain't the TGV's 189-ish MPH, but it's not a slowpoke either. And at only $8, I'd do that before the $80-90 that stupid plane costs. Put another way, this low a ticket price is starting to look more like public transit as many metro systems are only a bit cheaper at an average of $1.50 to maybe $5.00 for the most expensive. AND that $8 ticket has the potential to net you some decent service and perks which are impossible on public transit trains (food, nice comfy seat, actual air conditioning - even today there are still subway trains that have no or very minimal air conditioning). Yeah, I like how this sounds for Spain's train network and I hope they can make it work.

American Rail Club

3y↑8

Still faster than flying!

Παναγιώτης Σκαρπέτας

3y↑22

I don't think they they add tax later. In Europe the VAT is included in the price. I don't know if Spain is an exception.

John George Bauer-Buis

You do need to take into account conversion fees in most cases, unless you already have the appropriate currency (Euros in this case).

DrDewott

3y↑2

@Παναγιώτης Σκαρπέτας we just call that "The EU".

Παναγιώτης Σκαρπέτας

3y↑2

@Joshua Andino yeah sorry I was thinking it as the European monetary union and the UK. My university is in my head. 🤕 I'll correct this.

Joshua Andino

3y↑5

I just want to clarify that you don't have to put "Europe and the UK" because the UK is in the European continent. But whatever, you do you.

DrDewott

3y↑3

Yeah adding tax afterwards is a uniquely American thing

miquel Vega Molina

3y↑5

you forgot to add the fact that Spain has a very rugged geography, in contrast to America, wich has huge plain land, that allows the train to go full speed for long.

Xoron

3y↑18

In the EU VAT and other taxes are always included in consumer prices.

Guus Dohmen

3y↑1

@Stephen Beets well we get pretty cheap healthcare, studying is pretty cheap ( I payed about €1100 euro for a year of studying at the Delft university of technology), good infrastructure and public transit, universal pension(everyone above 67,5 years old gets just enough to live on. Any extra is for yourself to save), for students public transit is free etc.

The highest income tax bracket is about 51%, that's a downside...

Stephen Beets

@Guus Dohmen Jesus Christ, 21% on regular stuff? Stuff like toilet paper or are you talking about things like a new PC? In any case, 21% sales tax is INSANE! What the hell is all that paying for? It better be some damn good leadership! Consider me properly humbled. :-(

Guus Dohmen

3y↑2

@Stephen Beets 9.2% is nothing. Here in the Netherlands we have a 9% sales tax on essential products like food and a 21% sales tax on general goods

Stephen Beets

3y↑1

@American Rail Club How would you like to pay 9.2% of every dollar extra on everything you buy? Louisiana state sales tax plus New Orleans and vicinity regional tax. :-) But all joking aside, I wouldn't mind it quite so much if that money was going to something that actually serves the needs of the people. I guess I can dream.

American Rail Club

3y↑5

While I've been outspoken about taxes, at least in every other country outside the US I at least appreciate that the tax is already counted into the total cost of whatever item you are buying so it's not a "surprise" afterward.

ouicertes

3y↑2

Same thing happened with airlines in europe; low coast airlines broke the prices, you can travel across europe for no more than 30euro. Trains are doing the same thing now : low cost high speed rail, that offer a low base price (in France it's 10euro for 200km, and 16euro for more, up to 1000km roughly, accoring to availability). The trains have fixed hours, the slots that are not used by the "regular" trains, they stop at secondary train station when the primary train station is too congested (like airports 50km out of the city for Ryanair). You pay 3euro more to choose your seat, 2 euro more to have access to a power outlet, you pay 5 euro more for an extra luggage, you pay more for more leg room...
It's effective, taking full advantage of the high speed rail infrastructure, and it's very successful, people prefer trains to buses, when they are similarly priced.

Defining Slawek

Where are you finding 30 euro plane tickets on the regular in europe? The cheapest plane ticket I've ever had was for 15 euro to Sweden but typically it's 150-200 for my normal europe travels.
Edit: Oh you mean because of cheap airline tickets, trains have become really cheap?

Freedom Unrestricted

3y↑4

California is slightly smaller than Spain. What happened to their high speed rail?

Stephen Beets

Still building it, assuming they are actually building anything at this point in time. It's enormously overbudget and politically overloaded in any case.

AmFan_17 Presentations

3y↑2

I drove Hollywood, FL to Jacksonville, FL in 6 hours (including two stops) on one tank with my Corolla.

Tom Bourke

2y↑1

I think one of the main reasons for this is the recent liberalization of the European high speed network.
It is interesting to see how, even though most of the high speed networks are owned and run by the government, the competition between the different operators is changing the face of rail travel.

Rob K

3y↑2

I've seen a few videos on youtube criticizing the Spanish high speed rail, saying that it created a lot of debt, amount other things. I don't know how valid these criticisms are

Mikel Sopelana Durango

3y↑6

I imagine you are referring to the VisualPolitik video.
Long story short, they focused on the money thinking that every single route has to be profitable, when in fact it's a public service for a reason. Not only that, but the AVE service as a whole has been on positive numbers since 2016.
They also, somehow, forgot to mention the introduction of new operators, 2 of which are low cost, which will completely absorb the market of people that used to travel by road or plane because of the ticket price for certain days and hours.

Ekain Munduate

AVE used to be more "expensive" becouse renfe used the profit margin to maintain unprofitable long distance services.

nedj10

3y↑2

8 dollars can buy you SOME Greyhound bus seats with 7 day advanced purchase..and 19 dollars can buy some Frontier Airlines seats on some select routes with 14 day advanced purchase..Shall we then compare level of service offered for 7 bucks to show just how great the difference really is?

nedj10

@American Rail Club Indeed one of the single best value propositions that Amtrak offers is that the fares stay relativly the same until day of travel. For sub 5 hour travel that would be a game changer if the greater US public even had a clue as to such.

American Rail Club

Exactly, and again those have to be done in advance and most of those flights are to destinations that aren't popular, they're mostly done to bring up a quota for the number of passengers through an airline to keep gates at some airports.

Rob K

3y↑1

Honestly, 20 minutes to the city center doesn't sound to bad. In Chicago, it can sometimes take an hour to get downtown from O'hare (Seriously. If you are visiting Chicago, fly into Midway if you can.).

Kae Kae

20 minutes without cars on the road remember that we are talking about going airport to the center of the city with the highest concentration of population in this country, going all by car to the center is not feasible.

On the other hand, after floating above the ground in a Talgo at more than 180mph, the train opens the doors to a beautiful ride enjoying stretching your legs in the center of a city with 17th century buildings. That is unbeatable. Tourists love something like that without having to alienate with the airlines. You can travel between the center of the two largest cities in the country in the same day, the possibilities are endless..

Erik Krauss

:33 iPhones are still ridiculously expensive 😂

GrayTheWolf

3y↑4

And now France bans air travel where TGVs are present.

F. R.

3y↑1

@American Rail Club Yes, they ban it for train rides less than 2:30 train rides.

American Rail Club

I'm not sure they ban them, it's more that it's unprofitable for airlines.

Orome Denep

3y↑2

As a Spaniard, I must say this is done by government covering the losses.
HSR in Spain loses money by the millions

Roberto de la Cámara

This is simply not true. The Spanish high speed trains operate on a profit and in fact subsidize the regional trains. I guess you mean the government built the high speed lines and that this cost will take 50 or 100 years to be paid. That is true but the government also paid and built the airports and highways and I don't see you complaining about that

Mikel Sopelana Durango

3y↑4

High speed trains are the only service that turn a profit, which helps the state operator to keep running the conventional trains. And yes, they do win money. Please don’t post misinformation.

Kae Kae

As a spaniard, you don't really understand what public service means, the economic benefits for all of connecting Seville, Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. Also boost Talgo.

Mikel Sopelana Durango

Not actually. AVE services have turned a profit since 2016.

Stephen Beets

@American Rail Club I can't believe all the nonsense with Loop and Hyperloop. THAT crap is threatening to de-legitimize ANY sort of mass-transit and HSR project due to it being too often conflated with the cult of Elon Musk and his dumb ideas. I hope Las Vegas sleeps well because that money they just blew on Musk's Loop project AIN'T coming back any time soon. Their public bus system could have used that money.

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