For the better part of a decade, Austin's The Meat Purveyors were the skunk tossed into the tent of stoic bluegrass revivalism. Always more Brothers Ramone than Brothers Osborne and more comfy in boots jack than cowboy, TMP are still able to out-lament most of the current crop of high lonesome pretenders. Top shelf musicianship, razor sharp songwriting, and a total lack of concern for the confines of genre, made the Meat Purveyors one of the most entertaining and energetic plying the dark corners of the roots underground and touchstone in the thrashgrass movement.
Whiskey-fueled and case-hardened deep in the heart of Texas, TMP boast a personal history that would shame Fleetwood Mac, and wood shedding that sends so-called roots revivalists, snooty bluegrass purists, and alt-country poseurs into paroxysms of self-doubt and years of expensive therapy.
And just who are these Texans who dare to breathe fresh life into the overly stoic, staid and mossback world of bluegrass? Anchoring this dysfunctional lot with his percussion guitar and gift for lyrics is Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee Bill Anderson -a veteran of several Austin bands of note including Bigfoot Chester, Ballad Shambles and the legendary Poison 13. Diva Jo Walston is a honky tonk angel gone wrong under a towering beehive, while Miss Cherilyn DiMond delivers piledriver stand-up bass and harmonies directly from the choir (and banter directly from the truck stop parking lot). Mr. Peter Stiles, a reformed (we hope) Deadhead, presents a flabbergasting prestidigitation on the mandolin and it is rumored that he has never played a bad solo. Ever. Darcie Deaville provides the fiery fiddling and the wild-eyed stares that fans fear to love and love to fear.
The Meat Purveyors did their best to keep bluegrass from tottering meekly into a dust-covered coffin. Help them, won't you?
S.O.S.
The Meat Purveyors Lyrics
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I try to reach for you. but you have closed my mind
Whatever happened to our love? I wish I understood
It used to be so nice. It used to be so good
So when you're near me, darling, can't you hear me S.O.S.?
The love you gave me. nothing else can save me, S.O.S.
When you're gone, how can I even try to go on?
You seem so far away though you are standing near
You made me feel alive but something died I fear
I really tried to make it out. I wish I understood
What happened to our love? It used to be so good
So when you're near me, darling, can't you hear me S.O.S.?
The love you gave me. nothing else can save me, S.O.S.
When you're gone, how can I even try to go on?
When you're gone though I try how can I carry on?
When you're gone, how can I even try to go on?
When you're gone though I try how can I carry on?
The Meat Purveyors' song "S.O.S." is a heartfelt ballad about the breakdown of a relationship. The lyrics are an expression of the singer's confusion and pain over the dissolution of a once-beautiful love affair. She wonders where their happy days have gone and finds herself unable to reach her lover who has shut her out emotionally. She reminisces about how their love used to be so nice, so good, and alive, but now it's all gone. She describes her lover as standing near, yet so far away, and confesses that she fears something has died between them.
Line by Line Meaning
Where are those happy days they seem to hard to find?
I can't help but wonder where all the happy times have gone. They don't come easy these days.
I try to reach for you. but you have closed my mind
I keep trying to connect with you but it seems like you have shut me out.
Whatever happened to our love? I wish I understood
I don't know what went wrong with our relationship. I wish I could make sense of it.
It used to be so nice. It used to be so good
Things between us used to be great. We had a good thing going.
So when you're near me, darling, can't you hear me S.O.S.?
When we're together, I feel like I'm sending out a distress signal. I need your help to save our relationship.
The love you gave me. nothing else can save me, S.O.S.
Your love was the only thing that kept me going. I need it more than anything to keep me from falling apart.
When you're gone, how can I even try to go on?
Without you here, it's hard for me to keep going. I don't know how I'll manage to move on without you.
When you're gone though I try how can I carry on?
Even though I try my best, it's almost impossible for me to keep moving forward without you by my side.
You seem so far away though you are standing near
I feel like even though you're physically close to me, emotionally we are miles apart.
You made me feel alive but something died I fear
Being with you used to make me feel full of life, but now it feels like something important between us has disappeared.
I really tried to make it out. I wish I understood
I've done my best to make things work between us. But despite my efforts, I am still left wondering what went wrong.
When you're gone, how can I even try to go on?
Without you here, it's hard for me to keep going. I don't know how I'll manage to move on without you.
When you're gone though I try how can I carry on?
Even though I try my best, it's almost impossible for me to keep moving forward without you by my side.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: CHRISTOPHER LE FRIANT, DANIEL DALMADY, ZSOLT MILICHOVSKI
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