Scott Walker - The Escape Lyrics
The car in front follows the long way around
Prey moves
Predator moves
Foreshortened angels hunting me down
Halle -- halle -- halle
Sticks in gutters
Overkill
Is personal
Too many bullets
Rabbi crater
Keyed for action
hits the marks
I wish I was in Dixie
Sleet switches silence
To the shredding of larks
Combs of honey
Kellipot
Saliva's coating
balls of money
You and me against the world
You and me against the world
You and me against the world
World about to end
World about to end
World about to end
Windblown hair in a windowless room
A lifeline of knuckles
Waddles into the afternoon
Look into its eyes
It will look into your eyes
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Scott Walker The Escape Comments
I sometimes drop into comments to explain this song. This song is about Mel Blanc, who experienced a car crash that put in him in a coma. He was not responding to doctors for some time after, until a doctor tried to talk to Bugs Bunny instead, and the dead eyed Mel Blanc responded, "What's up doc?"
As always with Scott Walker, this is the literal meaning of the song, and you must listen and feel to intuitively understand the purpose of that meaning. There's always more to a Scott Walker song deeper down.
Oh, and the whistling sound is supposed to be the Looney Tunes opening sound, but severely twisted. No sound in a Scott Walker song at any microsecond is an accident.
do you have any source about this? also, i hear that Plastic Palace People is about a suicide, but i can't get any reference to that
Meat sent me.
That duck almost made me crap my pants.