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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 Cuomo|Cuomo]], [[Patrick Wilson|Wilson]]
| Writer  = [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Patrick Wilson]]
| RC#      = 154
| RC#      = 154
| COR#    = N/A
| COR#    =  
| Producer = Rivers Cuomo
| 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===
== Overview ==
*''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2007)
"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.
==Overview==
 
==Liner notes==
{{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==
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<youtube>AY1OK1kYuNU</youtube>
 
==Personnel==
== Personnel ==
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] vocals
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – co-writer, lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar
*[[Patrick Wilson]] — guitar, percussion
*[[Patrick Wilson]] - co-writer, drums
==Lyrics==
 
<gallery>Image:154-Lemonade.jpg
== Lyrics ==
Image:Lemonade2.jpg</gallery>
[[Image:154-Lemonade.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
[[Image:Lemonade2.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
<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
'Til the day I couldn't pass
Till the day I couldn't pass
Fallen lemons in my path
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]]