#SongLyricSunday-Drops of Jupiter-October 10

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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Heavenly Bodies, Planets, Moon, Sun, Stars.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Song Lyric Sunday Rules

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Drops of Jupiter

Hit songs sometimes can be hard to come by. That was the case for the band Train. Formed in San Francisco in 1994, they played small venues for a few years and in 1996 recorded their first, self-titled album, which included “Meet Virginia.” They couldn’t get a record deal, so they released it independently.

Singing lead vocals for Train is Pat Monahan. He is from a very strong Irish family and grew up in Erie PA. He was the youngest of 7 children and age 5 became an uncle. He lost his mother to lung cancer in 1998 and that loss inspired him to write Drops of Jupiter. That song is my choice for this week prompt. It appeared on the album with the same name Drops of Jupiter. It rescued Train from being a one hit wonder band.

Train performed an updated version of this song at the 2002 Grammy awards, which included a cello prelude by Denise Djokic and a full orchestra. When Train won the Grammy for Best Rock Song, Monahan thanked his mother.

Lyrics

Here is the video

Next week the prompt is Communication, Information, News, Telephone