Train’s Pat Monahan recently revealed that his late mother, Patricia Ann Monahan, unknowingly inspired him Drops from Jupiter.
Drops from Jupitera lead single track from the second studio album of the same name, was released on January 29, 2001. However, the album, which contained eleven songs, was dropped on March 27, 2001.
Train, the American rock band, consists of Pat (vocals), Hector Maldonado (bass, vocals), Butch Walker (guitar, vocals), Jerry Becker (keyboards, guitar) and Matt Musty (drums).
Pat appeared on the recent episode of the Music saved me podcast, where he opened up about his remarkable career, which has spanned decades.
Thinking about Train’s hit Drops from Jupiter came, the 56-year-old musician said they wanted to capitalize on the success of Meet Virginia from their first self-titled album, Train.
He explained, “We recorded an album called Something More and delivered it to Columbia Records. And they didn’t think we had a lead single. I wasn’t in the mood emotionally because I recently lost my mother. And now I don’t have a single for this record company.”
Just ten minutes of sleep one night provided Pat with “the lyrics and melodies” he needed to create a song for Columbia Records.
“One night I went to sleep and slept for probably 10 minutes and woke up with all the lyrics and melodies in my head, as if my mother had handed me the message: ‘This is what it’s like when you go to the other side. You can swim through the planets and come back with drops of Jupiter in your hair, and don’t worry about me,'” the singer said. Homesick crooner recalled.
Notably, he did not seek inspiration from his late mother while writing any particular part of the song.
“So then with the [lyric] ‘Finding Yourself Out There’, for me, that was the emotional part of it, which was like… it had to translate into a love story somehow, and so that was the little piece of something that I gave to the song that maybe my mother hadn’t delivered,” Pat explained.
It is pertinent to mention that Patricia Ann died of lung cancer in December 1998 while on tour with the band.
