Lyrics to
S.O.S. (Too Bad)

Released by Aerosmith in 1974
From the Album: Get Your Wings |

This version of S.o.s. (Too Bad) was released by Aerosmith in 1974.

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stagecoach lady, hourglass body
making things glow in the night
well, she would if she could, and she’d be good if she would only
tell her lover she be out tonight
’cause I’m a bat
a lonely school boy
and I’m a rat
and it’s too bad, can’t get me none of that!
Salt Lake City, salt-lickin’ bitties
*** stinkin’ of gin
well my daddy was hard, his face was pretty scarred
from kickin’ ass and playin’ poker to win
it’s too bad
and it’s too bad
can’t get me none of that!
*** lady
my mama Cady
chivalry was born at her feet
well she shoulda thought twice
when pa showed his dice
*** put my daddy to sleep
It’s too bad
Lord, it’s too bad!


Aerosmith has released many songs over the years besides S.o.s. (Too Bad). Aerosmith released songs from 1973 to 2004 spanning across albums like Aerosmith, Get Your Wings, Toys In The Attic, Rocks, Draw The Line, Night In The Ruts, Rock In A Hard Place, Done With Mirrors, Permanent Vacation, Pump, Get A Grip, Nine Lives, Just Push Play, and Honkin' On Bobo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Aerosmith.

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About Lyrics and S.o.s. (Too Bad) by Aerosmith

When you decide to study the lyrics to S.o.s. (Too Bad), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Aerosmith. Some of the lyrics to S.o.s. (Too Bad) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Aerosmith and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to S.o.s. (Too Bad) if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to S.o.s. (Too Bad)" means the words set to the music of S.o.s. (Too Bad), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Aerosmith. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to S.o.s. (Too Bad) and the lyrics to S.o.s. (Too Bad) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Aerosmith who came here looking just for the lyrics to S.o.s. (Too Bad), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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