I doubt that this was what they intended (being that the band is from Australia), but to me the song speaks to the high school football (American Football) subculture in the United States. Where high school football is life for most of the people living in small towns. To me the line "they bow their heads to pray for friday night
to save their lives and then
they go on through life armed with a scale from one to ten" speaks to the nature of the players on the team who live their lives as jocks rating all the girls (on a 1 to 10 scale). Then the part about "we'll scare them off with word play and sweep them under the rug" is about how the jocks treat the rest of the world. And it seems like the song is written from the perspective of someone caught in the middle of these two aspects of life.
Again not what I think SFK meant, but just how the words speak to me
I doubt that this was what they intended (being that the band is from Australia), but to me the song speaks to the high school football (American Football) subculture in the United States. Where high school football is life for most of the people living in small towns. To me the line "they bow their heads to pray for friday night to save their lives and then they go on through life armed with a scale from one to ten" speaks to the nature of the players on the team who live their lives as jocks rating all the girls (on a 1 to 10 scale). Then the part about "we'll scare them off with word play and sweep them under the rug" is about how the jocks treat the rest of the world. And it seems like the song is written from the perspective of someone caught in the middle of these two aspects of life.
Again not what I think SFK meant, but just how the words speak to me