We talked about it a lot many years ago
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About how paranoid this city is
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About its people, about its obsessions
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Two nightclubs, a hundred and six pharmacies
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A-ha Club Dogo, eight-eight-three, nice one Max
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With ten bucks you can't go anywhere anymore
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And we're still at the point where
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You drive around at three in the morning
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Looking for something that then
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We don't even know ourselves
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With ten bucks you can't get away
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It's not even enough at the pizzeria
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Stop a second at the vending machine
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At least on foot it won't leave us stranded
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Today ten bucks means two packs of cigs
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Bro, two magazines, a coke, and two pizzas
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Not like when you were a kid, master of the world
But without a single dime
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Before you could get by with a ten
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Now with a ten you're gone
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The blinding cash is gone but this is Italy
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Bro, I burn this ten and light up a smoke
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Not even a shadow of a tobacconist anymore
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Two are left, pick whichever you want
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Why keep the T lit
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’Cause then the two a**holes notice it here
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Look over there at those dogs howling
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For a female who says no
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Now they're going around acting like heroes
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Then they'll go back home a bit like us
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With ten bucks you can't get away
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It's not even enough at the pizzeria
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Stop a second at the vending machine
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At least on foot it won't leave us stranded
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As a kid I did the loop
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With a ten in my pocket but a ten was enough
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When you weren't thinking about millions and millions
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Even without a lira we were the best
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Dreaming of going higher than the Duomo
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Man makes the money, not money the man
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And if with a ten you can't get away
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We've still got our heads in this fantasy
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It's time to bring out ideas
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To become billionaires even if
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What we want to invent already exists
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All we still need is the solar parking disc
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The rock-star solution remains
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Let's drop everything and go to New York
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But then you look yourself in the face and say where's
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Where do you think we can go with faces like ours
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With ten bucks you can't get away
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It's not even enough at the pizzeria
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Stop a second at the vending machine
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At least on foot it won't leave us stranded