Lemonade

Album

Child of God II

Label

10K Projects

Genre

Christian music

Duration

3:00

Composer(s)

Bailey Gillen;Forrest Frank;Micah Yoder

Entered Chart

Aug 16, 2025

Peak Date

Aug 16, 2025

Released

August 1, 2025 October 3, 2025 (Folk remix)

In mid-July 2025, Forrest Frank suffered multiple fractures to his back in a skateboarding accident outside his home. While recovering from the injury, which occurred while he was playing with his two-year-old son, Bodie, Frank began composing music from his bed. "I think I'm gonna just sing whatever pops out, and I'm gonna build the chords around it," he explained in a video posted to TikTok. The result was two songs: "Lemonade" and "God's Got My Back." "Lemonade" is a song about finding hope, comfort, and joy through faith, even when life presents difficulties. Frank didn't make it alone. The seed came from The Figs - Bailey Gillen and Micah Yoder - a Christian folk duo who had been messing around with a sunny pop track in Frank's style. When he heard it, Frank, still horizontal but now creatively vertical, added his own vocals and twist on the arrangement. "Lemonade" was officially released on August 1, 2025. The Figs, who were working as camp counselors at the time, debuted it live at Summer Camp that night. The central metaphor is the old chestnut: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In this case, the lemons are shattered vertebrae and the lemonade a metaphor for divine grace turning challenges into blessings. Life gave me some lemons, but my Jesus, He be makin' lemonade Speaking about his gratitude that grew out of his accident, Frank said: "Following God is kind of hilarious because I'm feeling thankful for my back breaking? Just a few years ago, I was depressed and at the end of myself... now I have 24/7 access to unspeakable joy in every circumstance! Drugs don't do this, money can't do this, nothing else... only Jesus." The "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" phrase has appeared in pop culture plenty of times before. It is the meaning of the title of Beyoncé's 2016 album Lemonade, and in a monologue spoken by Jay-Z's grandmother Hattie White at the end of the album's track "Freedom," she declares: "I was served lemons, but I made lemonade," framing the concept as an act of power and transformation. Miranda Lambert's "Bluebird" also plays with the idea. She sings: "And if love keeps giving me lemons, I'll just mix 'em in my drink," a more honky-tonk approach to resilience. Frank, Gillen, and Yoder co-wrote and produced the track, with Jacob "Biz" Morris handling engineering duties. In case you're wondering how the story ends: within two weeks of his accident, Frank was pain-free, and follow-up scans showed no remaining fractures. He credited the rapid recovery to divine intervention. Frank explained to his followers that he woke up and forgot to put on his back brace, and carried on with his morning routine, including lifting Bodie up. "Then I realize, 'Wait, I'm not wearing my brace? What is going on?" he said. "I have complete healing in my back. I have not fractures in my back. No sign of a fracture in my back. So praise God. We saw a miracle!"

Ayy

The love of God has got me clean, no Old Spice
That desert I was in was deep (deep), so dry
But now I'm out here feeling free (I'm feeling free), so fly
I'm chillin' in the shade
Life gave me some lemons
But my Jesus, He be makin' lemonade, lemonade
My Jesus making lemonade, lemonade
I watch my worries wash away, lemonade
It's gonna be okay
Life gave me some lemons
But my Jesus, He be makin' lemonade (okay)

Made it with that living water (whoa)
Spirit, Son, Holy Father
The Devil thought he really got us
I guess he just forgot that
God works everything for better
No matter what the weather
He knits it all together
Cozier than a sweater (oh)


You're lighter than a feather (so light)
Just thinkin' 'bout the things You've done (done)
You mix the sour with the sweet (sweet)
And that's the perfect remedy

The love of God has got me clean, no Old Spice
That desert I was in was deep (deep), so dry
But now I'm out here feeling free (I'm feeling free), so fly
I'm chillin' in the shade
Life gave me some lemons
But my Jesus, He be makin' lemonade, lemonade
My Jesus making lemonade, lemonade
I watch my worries wash away, lemonade
It's gonna be okay
Life gave me some lemons
But my Jesus, He be makin' lemonade

(Lemonade)

Sweet like sugarcane on a summer day
Ain't my Jesus better than the words I could ever say
Promised that the great (the great), the good (the good)
The bad would come along

'Cause if life is always easy
Probably doing something wrong (probably doing something wrong)
He comforts in the sorrow, He's giving in the loss
He stole the shame I carried and wore it on the cross (He wore it on)
Providing me a future and manna for today
Life tried to give me lemons
But my Jesus makin' lemonade

Lemonade
My Jesus makin' lemonade (my Jesus makin' lemonade, yeah)
Lemonade
I watch my worries wash away, lemonade
It's gonna be okay
Life gave me some lemons
But my Jesus, He be makin' lemonade

Old Spice
He's always makin' lemonade
Makin' lemonade