Who is "Drops of Jupiter" about? NOT his girlfriend!
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I actually knew that this song was about Pat Monahan's mom.
Shooting star without a permanent scar: I would imagine that the scar refers to struggles with cancer and the scars of her illness. Wanting to be remembered without that scar of cancer.
The line of being a plain old Jane: a simple way to say that he's worried that his mom won't be proud of him.
Best explanation I've found yet. Well done Ashley. ;)
I was thinking exactly the same about "plain old Jane."
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The only thing I know about the meaning is that it's about the lead singer remembering a dream he had of his mom in space, and his mother died like 7 or 9 months ago during that time, it's such a sad song
Yep I'm right
The perfect star has to be Freddie.
i never realized or looked up what this song was about until now .i always felt like it was about a mother and not a gf. idk if it’s because of what my sister and i were going through at the time we first heard it .
when we were teenagers our mom was diagnosed with schizophrenia. it took a while for her doctors to diagnose her and even longer to get her on the right meds . but during that time we would tell each other she was just on a magical trip having the time of her life and that when she got back she would tell us about all the amazing things she saw “while she was looking for herself out there “ .
it makes me sad that as 13 and 15 year old we could feel the pain in his words and kind of relate ( even tho we didn’t lose our mother ) but anyways what i’m trying to say is that it really helped us get through a really hard time in our life . to this day this song makes us cry
You should totally analyze more of Train's older stuff like this. They've never been one of my favorite bands or anything, but my mom got me into them in middle school for the pure fact of how unique their lyricism is. Sometimes they seem like they're trying too hard to be quirky, but they do come up with really interesting ways to say what they mean
This is song is as deep as Jupiter's Oceans compared to their newer songs.
I hold this song in such reverence for my mom as well, who past when I was 5. Knowing the meaning gives it a totally different feeling.
This is my favorite song in the world. I’ve been telling everyone it’s true meaning forever and everyone has a new view of it after you learn its not a love song in a romantic way. This song can easily make me cry when I think about its meaning too much. He sings it so emotionally. Were you lonely looking for yourself out there and was is everything you wanted to find are my favorite lines. He’s still concerned that she’s happy out there
Oh my God, I've been planning on looking up these lyrics myself, then you upload this! You did it again! The same thing happened with Migraine.
For the “one without a permanent scar” line. I feel like he’s literally talking about falling. She fell from a star, back into the atmosphere but she didn’t get hurt because maybe you can’t get hurt or get scars in heaven.
I think when he writes about he’s afraid of her seeing him as “plain”, he’s talking about his own insecurities and fears. I imagine it as his mom telling him that there’s so much more out there and that the universe is so much bigger than the thing he’s afraid of. She knows now because she’s seen it for herself.
In an interview with WFAN radio Pat Monahan explains the death of his mother was deeply traumatic and that she had been the most important person in his life. The words came to him in a dream shortly after she died from cancer and felt it was her telling him that she was ok and that it was ok to move on with his life. He also included nods to him and his band in the song. Tae Bo creator is Billy Blanks who was born in Erie, PA, Monahan's home town. Soy Latte is a nod to his band who loved Starbucks. Deep fried chicken was a reference to his mother's amazing cooking. His mom was his biggest fan and he was her shining star. Permanent scar is the scar on his chin. This is such an amazing tribute song about the deep deep loss of a loved one.
The scar of her leaving or the imperfection of life
Good idea
This song has the most beautiful lyrics in my opinion
this song is actually part of a compilation called "Songs That Saved My Life 2" where bands cover songs that mean a lot to them and I think it would be interesting to explain the other songs of this album and the original one. They cover everything from The Postal Service to Death Cab For Cutie to Linkin Park, Third Eye Blind and the Beatles
I know this comment is 2 years old, but the cover from this album is what brought me back to this song. I absolutely love their version ❤❤❤❤
this is just an idea, but the scar could be referring to when meteors hit earth it leaves a mark behind. Maybe she fell from a shooting star but she never hurt earth so it means she's not really dead? Something like that. maybe the shooting star represents the cancer.
Tru meaning of drops of jupiter is in the first line of the song.. the drops of jupiter means the tears of the eyes of her mother when she at the atmospher a tear drop falling to her hair because she was sad to leave her son...
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He's imagining his mom still around.. talking to him... asking her if heaven is overrated... asking her if she went to all the planets.. while processing the loss..
"But tell me did you sail across the sun did you make it to the milky way" that line makes me think of, like hes asking his mom if she lived her life happy. Did she travel and experience things that she wanted to. A song of interaction between him and his mom and the mourning of her. Im no expert by far, just what i was thinking
You guys have it wrong.. Pat actually wrote this when he was young in part but it wasn't a complete idea.. when we were young he used to write about the seasonal changes and how they effected the earth.. simultaneously he had this recurrent dream about a ballerina dancing around a lamp.. when Patricia died it came together.. when things get emotional he gives people an out with humor..or a quirky turn of phrase.. some times he nods to people that know him without calling them out.. there is a bit of magic in it.
Good study
I think when he says "Can you imagine no love, pride, deep fried chicken ... no first dance, freeze-dried romance.." he is listing out so many things his mother loved. Since she is now just part of the atmosphere, she no longer has these things. I think he's saying: can you imagine existing differently and no longer having all these things you loved?
Like "You don't have these things anymore BUT tell me, did you finally get the chance to dance to the light of day?"
She lost everything she was, but she gained something new.
Good study. (The lack of candy).
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This changes everything. Up until now I didn't know what the lyrics meant. 8 months ago I had a stroke then found out on the same day I had cancer all while losing my mom less than 2 weeks later. You can bet that this will be at the top of my playlist the next time I have my chemo treatment. Right up there next to The sound of Silence by Disturbed.
You should analyze a few songs from Train's debut self titled album, Free, Blind, and Homesick. They're deeper than first meets the eye.
Makes everything sense to me every time I listen to this song reminds me of my mom died cause of cancer 😢❤I love u mum xx
The minute u explained it was his mum and cancer, I just welled up. I lost my mum too from cancer. Sucks man.
13 yrs ago i found out and it makes it deeper! Top 5 songs about a mother!
The soul vacation part sounds like he’s sarcastically asking if she found her self, along with the part about everything in space not being what she thought. Because she said she needed space to find herself. Idk
Heart breaking this song…esp. if you lose your mom.
The belief that everything changes due to someone's impact to life, and even the "universe" might be the reason he accepted his mom as being in the atmosphere. Poetically, death is sometimes referred to as complete freedom. The scar, as people here have commented, might resemble imperfection and her cancer. My passion for this song is stronger than ever.
Thank you so much for this! I love this song but I never understood it.
I don’t think you guys are getting it. Nor the song. You’re laughing petulantly about a beautiful song about his mother’s ascension to heaven. Get into it. It’s embarrassing.
I would say a Lot of ppl want their parents to be proud of them, and not view them as too afraid to go after their dreams and stay comfortable floating through life with no meaning or purpose. Like i just want to make my mom proud. That plain Jane, afraid to fly never landed lyric was obvious to me in parent - child dynamic.
While his mother was on earth her son was her shooting star and he had a permeant scar. She now is in a realm of perfection and he is comparing her new sprit world to our imperfection. At the same time this gives him inspiration to fly the best he can while here on earth. Mostly this song was the gate that gave him everything his mother ever wished for him. It's a beautiful song that embodies the sprit of someone that loved us and is now gone. It's hard to lose someone you love, but their love for you is always everywhere.
Thank you!
To me this song is about when one of my close friends tried to commit suicide. I thought she died, which I blamed myself for because of what I said. At the time I was suicidal myself, and I told her that I wouldn't hate her if she when through with it. Later that evening I found out that she was still alive and well. We didn't talk too much after. The song reminds me of how it still feels like she's around sometimes, even though I know she still is alive, because it wasn't until a year after her suicide attempt that I really realized everything. I never was able to get over the feeling that she died. This song helped me with that. All the lines relate so much to how it felt.
The song was the theme song of PACMAN. About an alien visiting Earth , thus the space 🌌 references. I never knew it's deeper meaning.
My mom passed away Easter Sunday and the last time I saw her this song came into my headphones and it's my favorite song she was just getting in bed to go to sleep and I started singing it to her and the way she looked at me I will never forget it was so beautiful she knew that was our last time seeing each other I love her and miss her so much I never knew this was what this song was about I'm in tears
I love this song.. my dad is mainly why I cry when I hear it most times because he would always tell me the song reminds him of me... I had a problem with drugs and relationships for many years thru my teens and early 20s....my poor parents.. love you mom and dad
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I totally thought this song was about a "nice guy" who was into a girl that just wanted to explore the world and left him behind in a small town...
I remember my dad used to think the lyric was "Van Halen is overrated".
I can't un hear it now
Also he has two facial scars one from me pushing him on a bike over an uneven sidewalk where tree roots messed up the sidewalk .. we both fell his face planted.. the other scar came from him throwing a pipe against a tree trying to kill a wasp.. it bounced back and hit him in the face .. not all that sexy but still kind of funny and interesting.
Thank you for writing the song Pat it means a lot to me 💖 Death is a LIE.
This is one of the most beautiful heartbreaking songs ever written & your interpretation is so superficial & doesn’t do it one ounce of justice smh
Sameeeeeee
So it's about his mom dieing from cancer and than it just goes all over the place. I still love it and it's fun to sing until you get to that plan ol Jain part and I always stumble right there! 💥. Any other singers get messed up at that part? Thank you for explaining this song. Thank you! You two are 🤣 funny.
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I know one thing I love this song: Drops of Jupiter, wow he can really write!
I think people take it to literally so they're always thinking about mother part, I believe he's talking to his mom, about his music, career, and a romance, not so much about her.💖
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Pretty sure when he says that about the permanent scar, he's talking about about her cancer scars. I have cancer scars on my body and I imagine my girls' would say that about me, that I'm still out there somewhere, but without having suffered from cancer and therefore, no permanent scars. I didn't know that's what the song was about but now it means much more to me!
The stuff he’s talking about when he says imagine no, is about his mom. She was his best friend. She made him fried chicken. And so forth.
It’s about his mother. He had a dream about her floating in soace after she died & he wrote the song about her that morning
I love this song!
It's about a girl with red hair
I always thought the permanent scar refers to the lead singer,as you said he's got a scar on his chin, so maybe the fall from a shooting star refers to somebody who is not the singer idk ? Eather way the song is just so cool, nice one Cliff 🤙👌❤️
I think he missed talking to her mom in the "tell me" part. Felt that.
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I heard an interview years ago saying that this was about Moynihan's mom, and I actually understood it better after I heard that. I took that line about the "plain jane" idea as mothers often think of their kids as being these wonderful acts of creation and his thought was after all the great stuff she's seen in that other place would she she still think he's great. As for the "permanent scar" piece, when we talk about permanent scars we are usually talking about something psychological. I wondered if what he was saying was did you find beings out there that were perfect and not like the members of his family or him, scarred in someway by life.
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It about his mother when she died
That she's back from her soul vacation tracing away through the constellation is my mothers words from a poem she wrote and gave to pay on his first tour in san Francisco she got a copy of a pressed vinyl with thank you for the beautiful words signed by pat monahan
Guess I had it wrong. 🥺
OR..he IS the shooting star ( rising in his career )
The scar is on him. He has a scar on his face.
I knew it was about her mom, who died. Scar is the lead singer’s actual scar.
Train is my favorite band
I would have said it was about an nde.
Please do ‘Wish You Were Here’ , Pink Floyd
“A shooting star; one without a permanent scar”
I like your explanation better, but I used to think it was saying a shooting star (a comet) without a trial (or a tail. Do you understand science better than your wife?)
Just putting my opinion out there even it seems wrong
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