Peacocks

The Alphas always remind me so much of Raymond Carver characters in their passion and their dis-ease, especially in this song which i can only take as a reference to "Feathers" by Carver.

The Narrator is experiencing the calm before the storm, and takes a moment to obsess over something that is not the other Alpha. They are bound to have a fight, and the Narrator knows this, and is putting their mind else where for the time being.

The last verse is the fight, and both Alphas passed out drunk the night before, they both have massive hangovers, and the sound of a helicopter overhead causes the couple to fall to the ground. They start to physically fight, but then it turns to sex, and everything feels right for the moment.

"How come there's peacocks in the front yard?"

who knows.....

we may never know...

Why are there peacocks? Why not. They're all over Sarasota, why not Tallahassee? Though it might seem a little weird to the Alpha male, since he's from California.

The Alphas always remind me so much of Raymond Carver characters in their passion and their dis-ease, especially in this song which i can only take as a reference to "Feathers" by Carver.

"How come there's peacocks in the front yard?"

The world may never know.

you can't have one without the other.

Just throwing my thoughts about the peacocks out there, I don't know much about the Alphas yet.

For me the line "how come there's peacocks in the front yard?" sounds like a late observation. Like he was so focused about his train of thought that he didn't even notice the peacocks standing in front of him, even if they are a quite obvious animal to spot. In this case it seems like hes wondering why he didn't notice something obvious, something that was right before his eyes all along. He was over thinking and not seeing the obvious answer.

Or maybe he was, again, focused and suddenly realized something about the world around him. Here the peacocks may represent shallow people who only cares about someones outside. In this case the line sounds like a side note in his train of thought. Maybe he thinks about this since he doesn't have anyone to hug.

whenever i think of peacocks, i think of flannery o'connor. she raised peacocks as a hobby for many years, and this album in many ways reminds me of her work, as it tells a story of deeply flawed characters in the american south being violently destroyed by forces of grace acting upon them. peacocks have sometimes been used by catholics to represent the church, and by many throughout history to represent immortality. when the narrator sees the peacocks in the yard, i imagine he is harshly reminded of his own sense of mortality as well as his crumbling wedding vows and moral deprivation, hence his anger/fear/disbelief when asking why there are peacocks in the front yard. although he is ultimately not strong enough to successfully endure the overwhelming convergence of opposing forces, now there is at least hope for some kind of spiritual redemption for our alpha couple, as evidenced by the final line. this album is so brilliantly put together, it's gotta be considered one of his best.