Streets, The - The Irony Of It All Lyrics
Hello, Hello. My names Terry and I'm a law abider
There's nothing I like more than getting fired up on beer
And when the weekends here I to exercise my right to get paralytic and fight
Good bloke fairly
But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny
I'm likely to cause mischief
Good clean grief you must believe and I ain't no thief.
Law abiding and all, all legal.
And who cares about my liver when it feels good
Wwhat you need is some real manhood.
Rasher Rasher Barney and Kasha putting peoples backs up.
Public disorder, I'll give you public disorder.
I down eight pints and run all over the place
Spit in the face of an officer
See if that bothers you cause I never broke a law in my life
Come on lads lets have another fight
Eh hello. My names Tim and I'm a criminal,
In the eyes of society I need to be in jail
For the choice of herbs I inhale.
This ain't no wholesale operation
Just a few eighths and some Playstations my's vocation
I pose a threat to the nation
And down the station the police hold no patience
Let's talk space and time
I like to get deep sometimes and think about Einstein
And Carl Jung And old Kung Fu movies I like to see
Pass the hydrator please
Yeah I'm floating on thin air.
Going to Amsterdam in the New Year - top gear there
Cause I taker pride in my hobby
Home made bongs using my engineering degree
Dear Leaders, please legalise weed for these reasons.
Like I was saying to him.
I told him: "Top with me and you won't live."
So I smacked him in the head and downed another Carling
Bada Bada Bing for the lad's night.
Mad fight, his face's a sad sight.
Vodka and Snake Bite.
Going on like a right geez, he's a twat,
Shouldn't have looked at me like that.
Anyway I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.
Can't stand crime either them hooligans on heroin.
Drugs and criminals those thugs are the pinnacle of the downfall of society
I've got all the anger pent up inside of me.
You know I don't see why I should be the criminal
How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal
And how many deaths are there per year from alcohol
I just completed Gran Tourismo on the hardest setting
We pose no threat on my settee
Ooh the pizza's here will someone let him in please
"We didn't order chicken, Not a problem we'll pick it out
I doubt they meant to mess us about
After all we're all adults not louts."
As I was saying, we're friendly peaceful people
We're not the ones out there causing trouble.
We just sit in this hazy bubble with our quarters
Discussing how beautiful Gail Porter is.
MTV, BBC 2, Channel 4 is on until six in the morning.
Then at six in the morning the sun dawns and it's my bedtime.
Causing trouble, your stinking rabble
Boys saying I'm the lad who's spoiling it
You're on drugs it really bugs me when people try and tell me I'm a thug
Just for getting drunk
I like getting drunk
Cause I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.
Now Terry you're repeating yourself
But that's okay drunk people can't help that.
A chemical reaction happening inside your brain causes you to forget what you're saying.
What. I know exactly what I'm saying
I'm perfectly sane
You stinking student lameo
Go get a job and stop robbing us of our taxes.
Err, well actually according to research
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land.
Why you cheeky little swine come here
I'm gonna batter you. Come here.
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Streets, The The Irony Of It All Comments
Terry: Tory
Tim: Labour but he slept in
People seems to miss the double sided irony. Yes the beer drinking thug is portraited as a thug, but the weed guy is portraited as a egocentric nerd filled with self justifying clichés..
Oh dear. It’s scarily accurate and if you’re British you’ve most likely met these people several times before! I know I have....
“How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal ?”
So fucking true !!!!!
god damn i love this shit
wrong lyrics but ok
its a genius!!! :)
Cult clasic not best seller
Legalise weed, LSD, mushrooms, and MDMA. These substance are being researched and used right now in therapeutic settings. They cause remarkably little harm. It’s just wrong.
regulate the market and even less people will get hospitalised. politicians are scared of free thinkers though
Alcohol: the worst and best drug at the same time.
What... if im doing the both?
Article 19 and such. Right to freedom of thought and expression.
Is that Phil Jones 🤣?
Why wasn't this pushed as the album's highest marketed priority single on UK, French top40/100 etc.. GFK etc.
Imagine Chumbawumba with a comebackalbum of instant classics... a real drinking anthem that made you 'almost' feel guity about downing that next pint.
A self deprecating jab in humility that could have strengthened Europe.
Fuck, The Streets could have maybe prevented Brexit.
This video is basically my life on a weekend, then my life during the week 👌🏻 fantastic
Don't try to make excuses for lazy dumb potheads
YourMajesty how’s the cuck life?
This is my anthem!!!
MIKE! MIKE! MIKE! Little obsessed..
LOL so listen to this judge... this is my defence just listen
your going down for 5.... in style. seriously has anyone used thnis song as a defence not like the fucking goverment give a shit fucking deals with pharmaceutical companys. grr REVOLUTION STREETS FANS UNITED. lol yeah me again
Sounds like Farage and that other fascist cockwomble who doesn't seem to know what his own name is... "I'd be on the frontline wiv em"
lmao.
All these years later and you realise how far ahead the times the The Streets are.
Fucking pusher scum these guys were.
Alcohol kills more people every year in the United States than all illegal drugs combined.. tobacco kills more than 4 times the amount of people than alcohol.. war on personal freedom and choices really .
More people drink alcohol so the comparisons to illegal drugs is not sound.
@Bollibompa ..uhmm, alcohol is a drug you know
@Cammdc 1
So? The comparison is not sound. More people drink alcohol so a direct comparison is not applicable. You have to look at percentages and adjust for error inflation.
We didn't order chicken. Not a problem. We'll pick it out.
After all, we're all adults not louts
I would feed that chicken to the pups...or chickens...or eat it myself because the poor thing was raised and killed- dead, anyway. Don't let it go to waste!
lyrics are wrong in places
Once In a while you wll find a proper gem with the streets catalogue
Basicly 'Lock Stock' in a videoclip
hooligans on heroin
dno why just always loved that bar; makes me think of a bunch of football hooligans going into the toilets for a quick line and not coming out.
anyone here convinced Terry is actually the superior human?
I can honestly say that smoking weed is way better than drinking
What happen to this guy man 😂
yes yes yes hit me up man pussy................... sorry thats my my by bad mam being good
2019 still illegal
Maybe in your shit country, move to Canada.
"I don't do drugs...I just drink alcohol"
whatever helps you sleep at night....alcohol is a drug...
Politicians need to WAKE THE FUCK UP
2:54 Brett Kavanaugh
So true respect ✊ 2 The streets ✊✊🇬🇧
This is brilliant
Still a twat
Gran Turismo doesn't have difficulty settings though...
The first two did
2019..... Still no change!!
Who the fuck promote that crap,.....
The best rap battle of history
Terry voted Brexit
Fuckin A
😂👍🏻
Terry voted against an EU megastate policing GB
YOU'RE ON DRUGS
its lairy, not leery. lairy as in lippy as in gobby as in mouthy.
1:43 Surely they're racked all wrong? http://www.epa.org.uk/wrules.php
nope. you can do it either way it doesnt matter as long as you have the crescent moon and 2 the same colour at the top. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackball_(pool)
Fucking drunks
how have I never seen this before? lmao
So much truth to this. Alcys and crackheads cause so much problems yet the peaceful stoner is the enemy and bad for society.
I smoked 16 years. I have a full time job and I'm the most productive while being the only pot head is a sea of coke heads.
mirror of UK
"If a war came along, ad be on the front line with em"
Lol, alcohol kills more people each year in the United States than any illegal substance.. illegal substances only ruin people lives because they're illegal.. Alcohol kills around 88,000 each year and the next closest is opiates at around 30,000.. stop the war on drugs, it ruins more lives than it helps.. And good God, who thought making marijuana illegal was a good idea.. people will abuse literally anything.. to include paint thinner.. so why bother making anything illegal.. altered states of consciousness are part of the human condition.. making laws against it is literally saying "stop being human.. legalization, education and rehabilitation is where the money should go that's used to "fight" it..
WHAHAHAHA LOVE IT!!!!!CHEERS UGH UGH FROM HOLLAND (born in preston ;-) )
The Fuckwit Asshats that run this country will never legalize weed.
couldnt be much more right if you tried 😂 such a tune
What kind of garbage is this?
Is mike skinner related to Frank Skinner?
In 2018...
Does he say "settee" or city?
love how idiots are missing the whole point of the song. neither are particularly good options. just a commentary
Love it love weed love Amsterdam oh yea
From running a pub in the past. Yeah. I agree...
Is this a joke?
Everyone knows a Terry... A knobhead who gets some Stella Artois and sniff in him and suddenly thinks he's Muhammad Ali and trying to put the world to right...
Still we live in ignorance heavily policing our streets at the weekends to stop drunk idiots smashing each other up and use tax payers money to repair damage caused by drunken louts and fund the NHS to deal with the affects of alcohol abuse.
This was our go-to song in college whenever we’d roll blunts!
1:43sec the balls are set up correctly in line with the code rules.... someone there knows how to play pool!!
@assaf. please fuck off with your bs description mUST SeE.
Well thank god attitudes are finally changing, medical marijuana gonna be on the NHS and Durham have practically decriminalised
I know exactly what I'm Saying ! I'm perfectly Sane!
Still going strong 👌😎
ALCOHOL the real gateway drug. ....fact !!!
Agreed.
Yeh buoy!
weed is shit
A bit one sided
Am I the only brit to watch this and think that much of these lyrics are incorrect?
MatthewXLY yes
Please elaborate without making yourself look stupid...?
I rarely drink these days and don't smoke either but on occasion I'll go out in town if some of my mates ask me to. It's always the same people you see and talk to in the smoking area where it's freezing who are saying the same mindless babble they say every week. You have shite music blasting all night so you can't have a conversation inside so you spend a large chunk of the night standing around doing naff all. What does it all amount to? Potentially having a hangover and vomiting for the better part of the next day. You spend money to buy an illness and quite literally piss the contents away in an hour or two. Weed just makes you feel good and you might throw up once here or there if you smoke too much. You don't wake up the next day with your arse exploding or with a splitting headache and you don't have to talk to the same people about things nobody cares about.
YOU'RE ON DRUGS
💕 Still listening 2018 💕
This guy is why Americans laugh at our teeth
A permanently relevant song.
1:25 I love the beat that comes with that "coz I take pride in my hobby" line. Are there any songs which use that kind of flow?
https://youtu.be/nmYi5u9BhtI
😉
This is the best thing i have ever seen, this is my life.
Tim all da way
I think it's "truck with me"
Mikes a legend
Fun facts:
- 0.06% drinkers are killed by it, 0.002% of blazers are killed by it.
- Alcohol costs the NHS 44 times more than cannabis does, even though there's only 9 times more drinkers than blazers.
The information that you can find on the internet~
@mackychloe go to your local dealer, ask for a few kilos then dont pay him. guess what happens next....
Can you cite me your source for 0.002% please I seem to be having some trouble finding it on the internet.
@ineedmoney121 Thats not smoking weed u doofus that called robbing a dealer.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsrelatedtodrugpoisoningenglandandwalesreferencetable
good tune mate respect. lol
I'm not proud of how I got here lol
Mike Skinner was YEARS ahead of his time
All his lyrics are so sick
Love this vid. I remember it when it came out, you realise its a few years old when he says the line 'talking about how beautiful gail porter is'.
Gail Porter haha quality
My english prof showed us this song today, it was a great class!
The idea that 'because alcohol is dangerous, therefore weed should be legal as well' is a non sequitur. This guy's a moron.
Put in "I'm a l aw abider". This comes up. So God does love me?
The sun dawns and its my bedtime haha story of my life
This is great on so many levels. Rhyme, steretypes, *irony* ...
"Spit in the face of an officer see if that bothers ya cause i've never broke a law in my life" quality 😂😂😂😂
This is awesome
This is me when I was 17 vs. me when I was 20
Great little vid. The music works well underneath, unlike some others I've seen elsewhere.
*i just completed gran turismo on the hardest setting*
Gran Turismo doesn't have difficulty settings...lol