Mili - Lemonade

Listen to “Lemonade” from Mili’s new album “Millennium Mother” now!

Mili 3rd Album “Millennium Mother”
- release -
4/25/2018

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Artwork: denq

Lyrics: momocashew
Music: momocashew & Yamato Kasai
Arrangement: Yamato Kasai

Mix & Recording Engineer: Satoshi Yoneda
MASTERING: KIMKEN STUDIO
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[XJen]

Making lemonade for someone only for it to be left as left over in the fridge until it spills because the person you made lemonade for won't acknowledge your effort for them is the perfect analogy of a dying relationship.

[tacticalnuke]

When life gives you lemons... you play it over and over again.

[SpicyCannoli]

This song is either very philosophical and deep. Or about a girl who spilled some lemonade.





I love it either way, so many new songs!

[addie]

What I get from this song is: when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade…but what about when you just seem to be unable to anymore?
Ergo, translation: when it gets hard, try to make the best of it. But what if you can’t anymore? When the lemonade spilt into your pillowcase are your tears? When you’ve been told you had a talent for making the best out of a rough situation and then you can’t anymore? When your efforts to trying to do what you used to be capable of falls into the floor? That is my take of it. You used to be able to do something, but something happened and you can’t do it anymore no matter how hard you try.

One thing I found fascinating is the detail of the first chorus of “over (over and over). The first over is just the singer’s voice. The (over and over) is robotic-echo-like. It’s as if they are at the forefront of their control or more present. But the second chorus, it switches. The first over is robotic-echo-like and the (over and over) is the regular voice. As if they’re losing it or less present. Eventually their voices smoosh together.

[yutakabaker]

局番の雰囲気でRTRTの作曲した人ってわかるなあ
やっぱ音楽って人それぞれって感じがしてすき

[エンゲイジ男-it]

1度聞いたら忘れられなくなるようなメロディー。
一語一語浸透してくるような歌詞が本当に素晴らしいです

[liviemillie]

Mili has the best lyrics of any songs I've ever heard, honestly ... I love how all of their lyrics are obviously inspired by a particular meaning, and so there is so much truly felt emotion in it ... however, the meaning itself is not so obvious, and that's the beauty of versatility. Leaving such a gap, the lyrics can be filled in by and touch anyone, without diluting the original meaning.

Keep creating Mili, we all love you, you change lives for the better.

[moonziez]

I feel like lemonade is a metaphor for her love for someone. She constantly loves this person but they're not present with her all the time. She loves them so much and has so much love to give without that person to receive it.

[fuseN_]

Sparkling leftover lemonade
you'll never touch
Tripped over my knock-off
iittala cup
Lemonade
It spills all over
Over
Over
No matter how much
I clean it up
Over
Over
Over
Lemonade sinks into the floor
Over
Over
Over
No matter how much
I lick it off
Over
Over
Over and over
Over and over and over and over

You said I make the best
lemonade in the world
A little bitter, a little sweet,
a little sour
Now that you're gone so much
lemonade gets left over
Waiting to be drank
I wish that person could be you
Lemonade
It spills all over
Over
Over
No matter how much
I want you back
Over
Over
Over
Lemonade stains my pillowcase
Over
Over
Over

No matter how much
I wipe it off
Over
Over and over
Over
Over and over
Over and over and over
and over
Over
And over
Over and over
And over
And over

Sparkling leftover lemonade
you'll never touch
Tripped over my knock-off
ittala cup
Lemonade
It spills all over
And over
All over
And over

[pentafive]

This is one of the reasons I love Mili so much; It expresses a story in a very experimental way, yet it's pleasurable to our ears at the same time.

[kamikage]

All your songs are so adorably heartbreaking. I can't get enough.

[キノ-sm]

神曲ばかり！！
聞き入ってしまう😌♥
英語話せないけど、歌えるまで覚えようとしちゃう☺

[cyrusphoenix]

For me, this song has been my rock for the past couple of months and I go back and listen to when I feel sorrowful and full of anxiety. The repetition of 'over' eased my anxiety and when I engage in the lyrics it reminds me of investments I've made in family and lovers that I ultimately get hurt and no matter how I heal there is still all this worth and energy that I've put into manipulative relationships that have finally used me. The 'you' is social construct of expectations and idealization I have projected into a person to be the person who will respect and love me when in reality I was played the fool out of.

[Seventy_nanaju]

When a person I’d been loved for a long time left, I suddenly thought of this song.

“Over”repeatedly appears in the lyrics, and it may not only represent the context of “spill over”. I can’t help but consider that “over” could be deemed as “a relationship or sth is over” as well.

Just like mine😢

[stephenvillarante]

Lemonade I think is a peice of her life that she never will ever forget. No matter how much she tries to clean it up, it spills over and over...

[marsmilk]

2:54 this part is so soothing, it literally gave me chills

[-wo]

誰かに飲まれることを待っている
その人が君だったらいいな

なんか切なくなってくるこの感じがたまらん…

[alezanderlancelot]

this was my entire first semester of 4th year college, the time when I was just starting out with thesis work and I clung to music to keep me sane from anxiety. Super lucky Mili's music was there to be with me

[nulloxis]

I had to get up and take a breather from how hard this song hit.
Was nearly knocked unconscious, 19/10 Thank you for blessing us with this work of art.

[ruiruii]

Whoaaa yet another new song from Mili so fast~ * w *

**Edit: Lyrics for Lemonade:**

Sparkling leftover lemonade you’ll never touch
Tripped over my knock-off ittala cup

Lemonade

It spills all over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over
No matter how much I clean it up
Over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over
Lemonade sinks into the floor
Over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over
No matter how much I lick it off
Over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over and over and over and over

You said I make the best lemonade in the world
A little bitter, a little sweet, a little sour
Now that you’re gone so much lemonade gets left over
Waiting to be drank
I wish that person could be you

Lemonade

It spills all over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over
No matter how much I want you back
Over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over
Lemonade stains my pillowcase
Over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over
No matter how much I wipe it off
Over (over and over)
Over (over and over)
Over and over and over and over

Over
And over
Over and over
And over
And over

Sparkling leftover lemonade you’ll never touch
Tripped over my knock-off ittala cup
Lemonade
It spills all over
And over
All over
And over