Lemonade

"Lemonade"
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
Album	Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Released	December 18, 2007
Recorded	Spring 1993
Length	2:31
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Cuomo, Wilson
RC#	154
COR#	N/A
Producer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
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
"The World We Love So Much (2) "Lemonade" (3) "The Bomb" (4)

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

Overview

"Lemonade" was previously unheard before the album's release. The song was said to be in the possession of some fans some time ago, well before it was released, and the lyrics were known before this due to being on the COR.

Liner notes

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.

Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo – co-writer, lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar
• Patrick Wilson - co-writer, drums

Lyrics

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
'Til the day I couldn't pass
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