Sorry I'm not too good at explaining very well in words, but to me it's a sad story of an alcoholic and what it's doing to his family.
Cinco de mayo being the most obvious reference, I think lemonade refers to alcohol, an innocent name the father calls his habit around his children.
The chorus represents when the children were young and their father wasn't an alcoholic, the happy and carefree times when he would take them camping and spoil them with ice cream.
The part with the parents I see as when they both young and hopeful, just starting their family with a bright future.
But as time wore on, the bright future began to become marred with the harsh reality of dead end jobs, mortgage repayments, the never ending sinkhole of money that comes with having seven children. Looking for an escape, Tim turned to the drink to numb his senses.
Being in this environment, they all had to grow up faster than any child should. Understanding the situation, the eldest of the children did their best to alleviate the burden from their mother who was equally affected by the father's spiralling alcoholism. The vicious cycle keeps turning until the father's desperation drove him to a fatal overdose.
In the end, it is only the eldest child who remembers the simple happy times before father turned to the lemonade.
However I haven't seen the film clip so I may be wrong.
Thoughts?
Sorry I'm not too good at explaining very well in words, but to me it's a sad story of an alcoholic and what it's doing to his family. Cinco de mayo being the most obvious reference, I think lemonade refers to alcohol, an innocent name the father calls his habit around his children. The chorus represents when the children were young and their father wasn't an alcoholic, the happy and carefree times when he would take them camping and spoil them with ice cream. The part with the parents I see as when they both young and hopeful, just starting their family with a bright future. But as time wore on, the bright future began to become marred with the harsh reality of dead end jobs, mortgage repayments, the never ending sinkhole of money that comes with having seven children. Looking for an escape, Tim turned to the drink to numb his senses. Being in this environment, they all had to grow up faster than any child should. Understanding the situation, the eldest of the children did their best to alleviate the burden from their mother who was equally affected by the father's spiralling alcoholism. The vicious cycle keeps turning until the father's desperation drove him to a fatal overdose. In the end, it is only the eldest child who remembers the simple happy times before father turned to the lemonade.
However I haven't seen the film clip so I may be wrong. Thoughts?