"Peek-a Boo! was a song about Devo's circus-like look and the dark side of human nature, the side we try to keep secret, the side we try to deny, in this Christian world where we're only supposed to have happy endings and only supposed to be good, and instead Devo is dealing with what evil is here in a very light-hearted manner."
-Gerald Casale, DEVO's bassist.
Basically it's someone looking into a mirror & trying to hide from their own dark side. No matter how they try to pretend it doesn't exist we all have to face it at one point or another. Some of us are just better at accepting & coping with it than others.
"Peek-a Boo! was a song about Devo's circus-like look and the dark side of human nature, the side we try to keep secret, the side we try to deny, in this Christian world where we're only supposed to have happy endings and only supposed to be good, and instead Devo is dealing with what evil is here in a very light-hearted manner."
-Gerald Casale, DEVO's bassist.
Basically it's someone looking into a mirror & trying to hide from their own dark side. No matter how they try to pretend it doesn't exist we all have to face it at one point or another. Some of us are just better at accepting & coping with it than others.