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| Artist = Rivers Cuomo | | Artist = Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Album = Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | | Album = Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Released = December 18, 2007 | | Released = [[December 18]], [[2007]] | ||
| Recorded = Spring 1993 | | Recorded = Spring [[1993]] | ||
| Length = 2:31 | | Length = 2:31 | ||
| Label = Geffen | | Label = Geffen | ||
| Writer = [[Rivers | | Writer = [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Patrick Wilson]] | ||
| RC# = 154 | | RC# = 154 | ||
| COR# = | | COR# = | ||
| Producer = | | Producer = | ||
| Status = Released | | Status = Released | ||
| RC's last song = "[[Jamie]]"<br>(RC# 153) | | RC's last song = "[[Jamie]]"<br>(RC# 153) | ||
| This RC song = "Lemonade"<br>(RC# 154) | | This RC song = "Lemonade"<br>(RC# 154) | ||
| RC's next song = "[[Speed Wax]] ([[If I Fell]])"<br>(RC# 155) | | RC's next song = "[[Surf Wax America|Speed Wax]] ([[If I Fell]])"<br>(RC# 155) | ||
| Album type = demo | | Album type = demo | ||
| Previous track = "[[The World We Love So Much]]<br>(2) | | Previous track = "[[The World We Love So Much]]<br>(2) | ||
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"'''Lemonade'''" is the third track from ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. | "'''Lemonade'''" is the third track from ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. | ||
===Appearances=== | |||
== | *''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2007) | ||
==Overview== | |||
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{{Alone 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.). | {{Alone 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. | 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.}} | As with most of the tracks that Pat and I recorded, this one descends into chaos at the end.|''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone liner notes|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 [[riverscuomo.com|his website]] in the early 2000s. | |||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
<youtube>AY1OK1kYuNU</youtube> | <youtube>AY1OK1kYuNU</youtube> | ||
==Personnel== | |||
== Personnel == | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] — vocals | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] | *[[Patrick Wilson]] — guitar, percussion | ||
*[[Patrick Wilson]] | ==Lyrics== | ||
<gallery>Image:154-Lemonade.jpg | |||
== Lyrics == | Image:Lemonade2.jpg</gallery> | ||
<poem>Would you like some lemonade? | <poem>Would you like some lemonade? | ||
No, this ain't no Minute Maid | No, this ain't no Minute Maid | ||
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On my way in such a fuss | On my way in such a fuss | ||
Passed the tree to catch the bus | 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 | So with my mom I now agree | ||
And use the lemons life gives me | And use the lemons life gives me | ||
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Lemonade | Lemonade | ||
Hard times come to me | Hard times come to me | ||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | *[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]] | [[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||
[[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]] | [[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]] | ||