I'm not sure of this, but the part about arsenic tasting like bitter almonds is referenced in Roald Dahl's short story, The Landlady, which is about a lonely lady who runs a bed and breakfast and likes to poison her customers. Then, after they die, she stuffs their bodies and taxidermies them like she did to her pets that died.
Other connections between this song and that story:
*The part about the two missing men is similar to the story of the two missing gentlemen that the story's narrator finds out (too late) were last seen checking into her bed and breakfast before they disappeared.
*"Well maybe you are lonely,
And only want a little company,
But keep your recipes for the rats to eat
And may they rest in peace with coffee-homeground.'
These lyrics DEFINITELY remind of the The Landlady. She kills people and keeps their stuffed bodies for company, because in her own crazy way, they keep her company and through her twisted imagination she's able to create her own stories for them without ever knowing who they really were as people.
I'm not sure of this, but the part about arsenic tasting like bitter almonds is referenced in Roald Dahl's short story, The Landlady, which is about a lonely lady who runs a bed and breakfast and likes to poison her customers. Then, after they die, she stuffs their bodies and taxidermies them like she did to her pets that died.
Other connections between this song and that story:
*The part about the two missing men is similar to the story of the two missing gentlemen that the story's narrator finds out (too late) were last seen checking into her bed and breakfast before they disappeared.
*"Well maybe you are lonely, And only want a little company, But keep your recipes for the rats to eat And may they rest in peace with coffee-homeground.'
These lyrics DEFINITELY remind of the The Landlady. She kills people and keeps their stuffed bodies for company, because in her own crazy way, they keep her company and through her twisted imagination she's able to create her own stories for them without ever knowing who they really were as people.