"The Irony of It All" is a song by The Streets. It features a dialogue between two people, "law-abiding" alcohol-consuming yob Terry, who calls himself 'an upstanding citizen', and 'criminal' cannabis smoking Tim. The irony referred to in the title of the song is that the legal drug alcohol is associated with many deaths and violent behaviour, while illegal cannabis has "no recorded fatalities". But the song is not entirely pro-marijuana, either; Tim is depicted as a slacker doing little with his life, watching BBC2 all night till his "bedtime" at 6am, and using his engineering degree to make home-made bongs. In this way Skinner shows the problems inherent with excess of either drug.

(Quelle: Wikipedia)