True meaning behind Drops of Jupiter by Train?

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Pat Monahan obviously wrote this song for his mom. If you'll actually look closely on the song you'll realize it's a conversation between him and his mom. He asks how her journey in heaven is then answers him with this lines,

Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken

Your best friend always sticking up for you

Even when I know you're wrong?

Can you imagine no first dance, freeze-dried romance

Five-hour phone conversation

The best soy latte that you ever had, and me?

And so the conversation continues.

AnswerPat Monahan wrote this song shortly after the death of his mother. During his depression, Pat had a dream about his mother. The words "In the Atmosphere" were engraved into his mind and he wrote a song about it. Overall, he wrote the song to help remind him that no one is really ever gone. They are just waiting for you up in the sky (what some may consider to be heaven). Answer

This song is about a girl/woman who left a man (possibly a boyfriend) with whom she was very close to at one point. She left thinking that there was more out there for her. While gone, she got caught up in the pretentious trends of the day (like tai-bo, soy lattes etc) and got lost in it all. In the song the man rhetorically/sarcastically asks her if her mind was blown, if she was swept off her feet and how it felt to get there only to realize that it's not all that (that the "lights were faded" and it was "overrated"). However he loved her enough to let her go knowing she needed to make these realizations on her own. Upon her return to the "atmosphere", he is still there for her....

It has been stated by the artist that this is a love song.

Personally I view this as a jab at those (often women in my experiences) who get so caught up in temporary, superficial things that they lose sight of what's really important at the end of the day. I take the narrator's tone as being extremely sarcastic and spiteful towards the woman to whom he's speaking. Pretty much boils down to "nice job dumb*ss. i hope you had fun doing all your cool s*it because it cost you our relationship..."

AnswerThe foregoing analysis may be correct, but I saw Train (Pat Monahan) on TV once and he was talking about his wife who was in the audience. He said, "Sometimes I look at her and ask myself, 'How'd I do that?'" I thought that was a wonderful comment to make about one's loved one and I have a hard time believing that someone capable of expressing such feelings would be likely to express such scorn of women in general in a song.

He wrote this song after his mother passed away from cancer. He woke up from a dream and had "back in the atmosphere" etched in his mind. Take from it what you will, but I think maybe it's somehow related to her death. If nothing else, she was his inspiration for this song.

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This is a song about his mom-- dying-- gone to heaven-- in the milky Way. How she is going to miss all the things they did-- eating Fried chicken--etc. Will she miss him-- while she is out in the stars-- the one with the permanent scar? It is beautiful and now that I know what the song is about I am even more impressed how his love for women including his mom- is expressed by so many of his songs. This poet of a man is so cool-- A fan indeed!

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This is what musicians refer to as an astral inspired song, usually the result of a drug induced 3rd eye opening. However, in this case the loss of his mother inspired him.

Since he has admitted it came to him in a 'dream', it is from the astral plane.

Many who can remember astral planing or Surfing experience what this song is all about.

Traveling the solar system and galaxy while in the astral plane.

Dancing along the break of dawn and the reference to Venus both refer to love and Venus is the star of dawn, she brings the light of day

So the trauma of the death of his mother, a major love in his life resulted in this astral revelation, hey, Heaven is seriously over rated, live your life now, LOVE

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This song isn't about Pat's mom. Perhaps some of the otherworldly imagery was inspired by a dream about her around the time of her death and he thought it would be nice to weave it into the song, but just listen to the lyrics - he is singing about a lost love who went out to "better herself" among the fancy people with their fancy things, leaving him behind. Reminiscing about their first dance & romance would be rather freaky if he was singin' about his mommy. He uses heaven, stars and planets to symbolize the gigantic, dreamy aspirations his restless lover has. It isn't presented in a spiteful way, but in a longing, sad way. He is bewildered that she left for a superficial, unsustainable fairy tale. The song puts an intergalactic spin on the old "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" concept.

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It is a love song. It is about a woman the artist admires greatly that taught him a few things and broadened his horizon. It is like he is 'looking up to her in great respect' in the lyrics. The song has a spiritual quality about it. It is about a woman who was obviously doing soul searching and trying out many different venues to expand and grow. She inspires him, he obviously looks up to this woman. They are (or were) best friends. I believe it is about his former wife Ginean Rapp. They were together 10 years and I'm sure took space along that journey. And yes it is a bit sad, but yet still inspires.

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I do not presume to know what the artist had in mind when he wrote this song however music speaks diferently to every person, that said, I believe it is about a man talking about a woman with whom he was obviously in love and who in one of those "I need to find myself, find out who I am etc etc." moments, left him. Im sure most people have been trough that, and then when she "grows up" or gets fed up with whatever she was doing, partying, working etc. realizes what she had and comes back to him hence the "And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself" and "Was it everything you wanted to find"he is still obviously in love with her and you can see that in his description of her "She acts like summer and walks like rain" and "She listens like spring and she talks like June". He is obviously still hurt about her leaving and lashes back a bit with "Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star One without a permanent scar And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself" Incidentally and I don't know if that has anything to do with it, he does have quite an abvious scar on his chin. Anyway that's what I thinks this song is about.