The Bones of Baby Dolls
Acid Bath Lyrics

The lyrics to Acid Bath's song, The Bones of Baby Dolls, are haunting and poetic, full of bizarre and eerie imagery that lends a sense of dread to the song. The first two verses describe flower girls playing lover and grave games in a courtyard. The singer hears screams emanating from someone, possibly one of the flower girls, which he compares to the sound of a radio. The third verse introduces a character named Mary Lou, who has left marks on somebody. She is screaming at walls and the singer feels like he's being consumed by the sky when the kite string pops. The final three verses see the singer and his group smoking the bones of baby dolls, engaging in techno-liquid screaming meat and cyber love. They are rebelling against the norms of society and rejecting the idea of working for pay or seeking freedom from others. The song ends with a repeated refrain of "Everything's gone dry, like bottle glass scraping cross the pavement," reinforcing the sense of hopelessness and despair that has permeated the entire song.

While the lyrics to The Bones of Baby Dolls are open to interpretation, they seem to speak to themes of alienation and rebellion, with the singer and his group rejecting societal norms and carving out their own strange and terrifying space in the world around them. The imagery of flower girls playing grave games and smoking the bones of baby dolls is deeply unsettling, suggesting a world where innocence has been corrupted and the boundaries between life and death have been blurred.