Pondering Eternity (Study 2)
One-Way Ticket is a late-night club track about life, death, and the narrow blur in between. It’s about the dash between the dates. The fact that time is moving whether we’re ready or not. And the choice we still have while it does. Built on an amapiano groove with minimal acid textures and a touch of soul, the track treats movement as meaning. No afterlife metaphors. No spiritual answers. Just bodies in motion, watching it all go by, deciding how present to be. Life is precious because it’s moving. So we dance while the train is in motion.
Video direction & editing: John Gerstner
Music: One-Way Ticket — Listen on Spotify →
Written by John Gerstner
Created with Suno AI
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▶ Lyrics (click to view)
Intro
(Groove establishes)
Verse 1
The funny thing about death
Is it makes you look at life
That dash between the dates
Just a Blur of color, heat, and light
One-way ticket
Window seat
Pre-Chorus
Train in motion
Train in motion
Chorus
Every moment
Every minute
Every heartbeat
Here, then gone
So we dance
So we dance
We love
We love
Verse 2
Don’t know the station
Don’t know the time
Wheels keep rolling
I’m still packing mine
Chorus
Every moment
Every day
Every heartbeat
Here, then gone
So we dance
While it’s moving
We love
All the way home
Bridge
(Drums drop, bass pulse only)
Dance
While the train’s in motion
Dance
While it’s moving
(Beat returns)
Outro / Final Mantra
Still got my window seat
Still watching it all go by
Still watching it all go by
Still watching it all go by
One-way ticket
Window seat
(Cut hard. No fade.)