There was no need to talk about it
They were old enough to scoff it out
And keep it loose

The story:

This is actually the opposite of the usual story
here. I was looking at a lyrics web site and saw
"scoff it out". I thought, "WTF is scoff it out?
Could *I* have possibly been singing it wrong all
these years?" I checked a few more web sites and
finally decided that the dumbass who posted
"scoff it out" obviously had misheard the lyrics.