The song starts with a sound that seems like a dead version of that old Merry Melodies starting sound (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAF8NB3ty8) that brings up the shield with the Warner Brothers Logo. I don't believe that Scott Walker would display for us an image of a brand (Warner Brothers) whose name very much reminds of Walker Brothers in a song called Escape, if he didn't want to implicate that one of the themes of the song is the escape from Walker brothers fame, or perhaps their failed revival.
The other theme of the song may be somehow linked to Mel Blanc, the famous Warner Brothers voice actor that gave the voice for both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Mel Blanc has had a serious car accident ("car in front follows"?) that put him in a coma and the doctors could only talk to him if they addressed him as Bugs Bunny ("WHATS UP DOOC??"). Also Mel Blanc was jewish and has a jewish star on his tombstone, which might somehow link to third theme of the song: jewish mysticism.
The song starts with a sound that seems like a dead version of that old Merry Melodies starting sound (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAF8NB3ty8) that brings up the shield with the Warner Brothers Logo. I don't believe that Scott Walker would display for us an image of a brand (Warner Brothers) whose name very much reminds of Walker Brothers in a song called Escape, if he didn't want to implicate that one of the themes of the song is the escape from Walker brothers fame, or perhaps their failed revival.
The other theme of the song may be somehow linked to Mel Blanc, the famous Warner Brothers voice actor that gave the voice for both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Mel Blanc has had a serious car accident ("car in front follows"?) that put him in a coma and the doctors could only talk to him if they addressed him as Bugs Bunny ("WHATS UP DOOC??"). Also Mel Blanc was jewish and has a jewish star on his tombstone, which might somehow link to third theme of the song: jewish mysticism.