9."Peacoat" was composed by Dean, inspired by a photograph of his four-year old son standing in Central Park during winter, wearing a peacoat. Weiland and Dean got into a disagreement about whether or not the song should have been included on the album. "I couldn’t believe [Weiland] was having second thoughts about it — his singing was so strong!... [He] knocked it out of the park vocally." Weiland's lyrics, of course, changed the ultimate meaning of the song, but the title remained. Dean explained, "These titles crack me up. A lot of them were the working titles and they just stuck. Peacoat is one of them. As a title, it has nothing to do with the song at all."[29]
9."Peacoat" was composed by Dean, inspired by a photograph of his four-year old son standing in Central Park during winter, wearing a peacoat. Weiland and Dean got into a disagreement about whether or not the song should have been included on the album. "I couldn’t believe [Weiland] was having second thoughts about it — his singing was so strong!... [He] knocked it out of the park vocally." Weiland's lyrics, of course, changed the ultimate meaning of the song, but the title remained. Dean explained, "These titles crack me up. A lot of them were the working titles and they just stuck. Peacoat is one of them. As a title, it has nothing to do with the song at all."[29]