The Soap-Maker of Correggio Lyrics


Killed with an axe

And delicately sliced

Nine tidy chunks

The first sacrificed

Rendering fats

With caustic ash

Saponify

Lipids with lye

Three sacrifices

Three to die

To heaven they fly

Soap maker

With human fat

Cannibalistic

Three victims

Three souls

To sacrifice

Butchering them

Eating their blood

Horrific gluttony

Writing postcards

Everything is fine

At least she thought

Drinking drugged wine

Once again

Killed with an axe

Second sacrifice

Maimed and hacked

Three sacrifices

Three to die

To heaven they fly

Soap maker

With human fat

Cannibalistic

Three victims

Three souls

To sacrifice

Butchering them

Eating their blood

Horrific gluttony

The final a close friend

Of an opera composer

She had different plans

To decompose her

Made into soap

In a hot melting pot

A third sacrifice

Before she was caught

Three sacrifices

Three to die

To heaven they fly

Soap maker

With human fat

Cannibalistic

Three victims

Three souls

To sacrifice

Butchering them

Eating their blood

Horrific gluttony