Billboard Top 100, 2001, #4 
Music-wise, this is a nice Pop song. Lyrically, it's a thing of beauty.
Pat Monahan was inspired to write this song after the death of his mother; some of the lyrics came to him in a dream. The song is essentially a fantasy of her coming back to see him, and it laced with lots of metaphors about a trip through the cosmos. I expect there's a little more to it than that, but that's the gist of it.
Drops Of Jupiter is such a visual song. Think back to the lyrics of Don McLean's Vincent:
Pat Monahan was inspired to write this song after the death of his mother; some of the lyrics came to him in a dream. The song is essentially a fantasy of her coming back to see him, and it laced with lots of metaphors about a trip through the cosmos. I expect there's a little more to it than that, but that's the gist of it.
Drops Of Jupiter is such a visual song. Think back to the lyrics of Don McLean's Vincent:
Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue...
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue...
and compare:
Tell me did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated?
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated?
The lyrics turn words into light and color, and the listener gets two different stimuli: one in sound and the other in pictures in the mind. Great writers, whether they're songwriters or book authors or (cough, cough) bloggers, strive to inspire images in the mind of the reader. A song like this can really transport you to another world.
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