No Escape?

For whatever reason, AOL Radio has a station called “Top 111 Worst Songs.” Why 111? Your guess is as good as mine.
At any rate, one day while at work we were listening to that station (Every other station I tried was overloaded with music that sucked so I figured I’d just get it over with and listen to stuff that’s supposed to suck) and the song “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” came on.
You know the song: guy decides to cheat on his wife/girlfriend because he’s sick of her and responds to a personal ad placed by a woman who seems appealing. They plan to meet and lo and behold the woman who’d placed the ad was his wife/girlfriend who was just as sick of him as he was of her.
Anyway, in listening to the song I noticed that the place they chose to meet was “a bar called O’Malley’s.”
This stood out for me, as that morning on my way in to work I’d been listening to the song “O’Malley’s Bar” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, featured on their album Murder Ballads.
As the name of the album suggests, all of the songs involve murder, and “O’Malley’s Bar” is certainly no exception.
Told in a first-person narrative, the song takes us through a rather fateful night at the titular bar in which the protagonist decides to brutally murder everyone present. We never get the “why” of it, but we get a very detailed description of the “how.”
The song is brutal and vicious and ugly and discordant and cacophonous and darkly funny.
(For those interested, the lyrics are here, but are decidedly not for the faint of heart)
In any case, I couldn’t help but wonder if there was a connection between Nick’s song and that infernal paean to thwarted infidelity.
While I can’t quite bring myself to say that they would deserve it, I do find myself amused by the notion that as the couple realizes that they’ve both been trying to cheat on each other and that they already had what they were looking for all along they share a pina colada and are viciously gunned down by a lunatic who claims to have no free will.
I thought about it for a bit and realized that among the victims at O’Malley’s there is, in fact, a married couple (two married couples, actually, but I’m not counting the O’Malleys themselves).
The coincidence goes further, though, in that the Pina Colada song was performed by Rupert Holmes, and the married couple that gets murdered at O’Malley’s is a Mr. and Mrs. Holmes!
That’s where the coincidence ends, though, as it is a Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holmes.
Still, the speculation was fun while it lasted.