Lemonade

"Lemonade"
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
from the album Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Released	December 18, 2007
Recorded	Spring 1993
Length	2:31
Label	Geffen
Songwriter(s)	Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson
RC#	154
Status	Released
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"Jamie" (RC# 153) "Lemonade" (RC# 154) "Speed Wax (If I Fell)" (RC# 155)
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo track listing
18 tracks "Ooh" "The World We Love So Much" "Lemonade" "The Bomb" "Buddy Holly" "Chess" "Longtime Sunshine" "Blast Off!" "Who You Callin' Bitch?" "Wanda (You're My Only Love)" "Dude, We're Finally Landing" "Superfriend" "Lover in the Snow" "Crazy One" "This Is the Way" "Little Diane" "I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar" "I Was Made for You"

"Lemonade" is the third track from Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.

Appearances

• Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2007)

Overview

Did everyone else's mom tell them the lemonade story? If life gives you lemons make lemonade. In my case, the lemonade I was making was my recent songs ("Say it ain't So", "No one Else", etc.).

I went on a round-the-country trip on Amtrak over Christmas. I had a tape of the music for "Lemonade" with me, written and performed by Pat, and I wrote the lyrics on the train after stopping at my mom's in Connecticut. I recorded the vocal in the garage when I got back home to Los Angeles.

As with most of the tracks that Pat and I recorded, this one descends into chaos at the end.

- Rivers Cuomo, Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo liner notes

Though "Lemonade" was not heard by fans until its release on Alone in 2007, Cuomo uploaded scans of his own handwritten lyrics to his website in the early 2000s.

Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo — vocals
• Patrick Wilson — guitar, percussion

Lyrics

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Would you like some lemonade?
No, this ain't no Minute Maid
Just today I picked them fresh
From the tree that I love best
Couldn't let them rot away
Like my father used to say

Oh, happy day
Lemonade

Long ago, I didn't know
Didn't care and couldn't grow
On my way in such a fuss
Passed the tree to catch the bus
Till the day I couldn't pass
The fallen lemons in my path
So with my mom I now agree
And use the lemons life gives me

Oh, happy day
Lemonade

Hard times come to me

See also

• List of Rivers Cuomo songs