When I decided to do a 10th Anniversary edition of Lemonymous, I thought it would be a lot of fun and something a little extra to do a remix album. Initially, I wanted to send the songs out to different DJs and producers and have them do all the mixes, but then I decided it would be really great practice for me leading into my first real album in over a decade, so what I ended up with were some pure remixes, some acoustic versions, a rock performance of a dance tune, and two alternate takes of songs with different lyrics.
It also gave me my first music video in six years in the form of "Reverse Pyschology", filmed entirely on iPhone 6.
In a way, Lemonymix is the perfect companion to Lemonymous, but I also think it could stand on its own if it wanted to. I actually like some of the versions of the songs here more than on the actual album.
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Hide And Seek (Lemonymix)
Walking down the stairway
Just to find a place to hide
Down down the stairway
I'm all alone
I don't try
And I don't mind
I'm going blind
Can anybody find me?
To the touch of one
The touch of some
That's all we ever want to be
To the touch of one
The touch of none
That's all we ever are
Dirty Bird
You don't cry
Dirty bird
You don't lie
Dirty bird
You don't talk like a man
Manipulation Under Stress (Lemonymix)
August
Always heading for a fall
You say you've finally found
What was underneath it all
Honest
When you haven't got a chance
You would do anything
In any circumstance
Faceless
You do what you like
You find no consequence
In the crashing of the night
Winding in circles
You break everyone you can
Just tilt your head back
Swallow down this slight of hand
Hey now just keep your head up baby
Hey now you know the horizon's in sight
Silence
The calm within your greed
Strangled in the heat
Of your own blasphemy
There's no labor
No fruits you can enjoy
By no means lucious
There's no way you can fullfill this heart
Hey now just keep your head up baby
Hey now you know the horizon's in sight
And I promise you I'll be here when it's over
If you only knew the words I'd let you go
And you wake into the night
And you save my soul
And you break through more than ice
Like you did before
And you slay the old disguise
And you make us whole
And you wade into the tide
Where I save it all
For you, Child
Limb from broken limb
Stripped of all intent
And the colors of your sins
But there's no anger
No solitude inside
To keep you company
When you're blind
Hey now just keep your head up baby
Hey now you know the horizon's in sight
And I promise you I'll be here when it's over
If you only knew the words I'd let you go
And you wake into the night
And you save my soul
And you break through more than ice
Like you did before
And you slay the old disguise
And you make us whole
And you wade into the tide
Where I save it all
For you, Child
March of Thieves (Original Intent Lemonymix)
We're almost home
No one can take that away from us, Child
Through sleet and snow
They can lay the blame
Don't look around
You know they're right behind us
Don't fear the sound
We're everywhere in between
Don't look away
I wanna see you cry
Those tears today
Could give us all tomorrow's lies
Well I see it in your face
You're too modest to believe me
When you look around this place
You can see the chaos I foretold
And there's time
And there's time
And there's time
To run
Take your heart away
And there's time
And there's time
And there's time
To run
Baby wait
Like A Dream (Acoustic)
Day begs the night
Just to give him one more hour
Gray turns to white
As her colors fade away
Great mountains easily
Reveal my shame
We'll always wonder
We'll always wonder why
Stay like a dream
You know you are so lovely
Wave like the sea
You know you are so lovely
Love begs the night
Just to give him one more chance
Drowned in her fire
As her colors fade away
Red oceans feed
The greed between her eyes
She'll always slumber
Forever slumber
Stay like a dream
You know you are so lovely
Wave like the seas
You know you are so lovely
And this is overcast
It's over fast
You know I won't let go
Yeah so in the rain
So overplayed
You know I'm wanting
Stay like a dream
You know you are so lovely
Wave like the seas
You know you are so lovely
Home away from home
Home away from home
My Girl, My Love, Let's Kiss (Acoustic)
Welcome home
To the scarlet of the dawn
You tell me to behave
When you're the one who's done me wrong
My girl
My love
Let's kiss
Does it even matter
Whose wrong or right it is
Well who could dare to leave you
Or is there something that I've missed?
My Girl
My Love
Let's Kiss
Baby I'm torn
Between the when's and the why's
What is love?
What is faith?
What of truth?
And of lies?
To weather the storm
In the darkness of your eyes
To get lost
In the tide
When rivers
Start to cry
An old opinion
That's run out of steam
Dare I take this hand
While I dance you through a dream?
My girl
My love
Let's kiss
Honey if my love
Is a shield for your crime
Then you lose
When you win
Babe it happens
All the time
Baby if your heart
Is a shield for your tale
Makes it hard
To hold on
When our love
Turns stale
Once upon a time
In the scarlet of your eyes
Our souls were set alight
Like two doves intertwined
My Girl
My Love
Let's Kiss
My Girl
My Love
Let's Kiss
So Can't I (Lemonymix)
We can in time
So can't I
Maybe in time
So can't I
We can in time
So Can't I
Maybe in time
Maybe
Fate (Alternate Lemonymix)
Fate can let you down
Break without a sound
Burn you to the ground
And like a cruel hangover
It won't leave you alone
Fate can cross the line
Faded over time
Great, but never fine
You find its consequences
On the road home
Your melancholy's got me up against the wall
And this direction is bereft of any sense at all
Fate can be your man
Bate you in its plan
Take you hand in hand
And with a cruel dismissal
Leave you naked and bare
Fate is pure of greed
...?
Break you to your knees
And when you fall to the ground
You'd better stay there
Your melancholy's got me up against the wall
And this direction is bereft of any sense at all
And when tomorrow breaks you'll see that I don't care
You look my way and you will see there's no one there
Your melancholy's got me up against the wall
And this direction is bereft of any sense at all
Alive (Acoustic)
From what I hear
You would do anything
Well nothing's changed
You won't give up on me
Well I won't lie
If I could see the way out
Well I won't try
To be anything
Anything you feel
And I feel a love so true
But then a wish could never do
It's just a beautiful reflection of you
When I've nothing to cling to
When you're all alone
No one says you're different
When you're all alone
No one puts you down
From what I cared for
To what I'd lost
Is it enough to dream on
No matter what the cost?
We always try
To love everyone
You know
You know
I'd cry if these tears would be enough
I could feel the sky turn blue
As if a wish could never do
It's just a beautiful reflection of you
What would I be without you?
When you're all alone
No one says you're different
When you're all alone
No one puts you down
Reverse Psychology (Alternate Lemonymix)
What dream is this?
The way has gotten cold
The tracks have covered over
What seems as bliss
Is nothing but catastrophe
The chaos that you left me with
What tears your heart
It beats you down
It leaves you more than scars
It leaves you in the dark
Where do you go
When that fire isn't there?
Who do you call
When no one understands?
What shakes your hands
It often shakes the soul
The rock has been turned over
What ties the knot
Will keep you from the moments
And everything you think you are
What loosed the tongue
And bites the lip
Will leave you more than scars
Assembled in the stars
Where do you go
When that fire isn’t there?
Who do you call
When no one understands?
Tell me
What is left
The night is in despair
When you wake up
Hold on
You know you’re almost there
Another Moment
Don't you have something to tell her
Don't you have something to say
You never wanted to scream out loud
And blow the ashes away
Isn't there something about her
Something that you'll always miss
There's always something that's worth holding onto
But never something like this
And your heart
It beats too slow
For you to let on
That you don't know
What was never gone
When the willows blow
You're a sullen song
Maybe tomorrow
Don't you have something to tell her
Don't you have something to say
You never wanted to scream out loud
And blow the ashes away
Isn't there something about her
Something that you'll always miss
There's always something that's worth holding onto
But never something like this
And your mind
It never rests
In the frozen bloom
What you don't get
Maybe sometime soon
You'll hear her yet
Under the swollen moon
But the sun won't set
Don't you have something to tell her
Don't you have something to say
You never wanted to scream out loud
And blow the ashes away
Don't you have something to leave her
Just like she left you
A little moment of time to remember
A moment without you
A moment without you
Another moment without you
Another moment without you
Another moment without you
The Companion To 2005's Lemonymous!
RELEASED September 29, 2015
- Full-Color CD Jacket
- Full-Color Printed CD Label
Tracklisting
- Hide And Seek (Lemonymix)
- Manipulation Under Stress (Lemonymix)
- March of Thieves (Original Intent Lemonymix)
- Like A Dream (Acoustic Lemonymix)
- My Girl, My Love, Let's Kiss (Acoustic Lemonymix)
- Goodbye (Manipulation Embryonic Lemonymix)
- So Can't I (Lemonymix)
- Autumn (Lemonymix)
- Fate (Alternate Lemonymix)
- Alive (Acoustic Lemonymix)
- Reverse Psychology (Alternate Lemonymix)
- Another Moment