Con Un Deca Lyrics in English Club Dogo , Max Pezzali

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Con Un Deca by Club Dogo from Italian to English.

We talked about it a lot many years ago

About how paranoid this city is

About its people, about its obsessions

Two nightclubs, a hundred and six pharmacies

A-ha Club Dogo, eight-eight-three, nice one Max

With ten bucks you can't go anywhere anymore

And we're still at the point where

You drive around at three in the morning

Looking for something that then

We don't even know ourselves

With ten bucks you can't get away

It's not even enough at the pizzeria

Stop a second at the vending machine

At least on foot it won't leave us stranded

In this city

Go Max

Today ten bucks means two packs of cigs

Bro, two magazines, a coke, and two pizzas

Not like when you were a kid, master of the world

But without a single dime

Bro, zero poetry

Before you could get by with a ten

Now with a ten you're gone

The blinding cash is gone but this is Italy

Bro, I burn this ten and light up a smoke

Not even a shadow of a tobacconist anymore

Two are left, pick whichever you want

Why keep the T lit

’Cause then the two a**holes notice it here

Look over there at those dogs howling

For a female who says no

Now they're going around acting like heroes

Then they'll go back home a bit like us

With ten bucks you can't get away

It's not even enough at the pizzeria

Stop a second at the vending machine

At least on foot it won't leave us stranded

In this city

As a kid I did the loop

With a ten in my pocket but a ten was enough

When you weren't thinking about millions and millions

Even without a lira we were the best

Dreaming of going higher than the Duomo

Man makes the money, not money the man

And if with a ten you can't get away

We've still got our heads in this fantasy

It's time to bring out ideas

To become billionaires even if

What we want to invent already exists

All we still need is the solar parking disc

The rock-star solution remains

Let's drop everything and go to New York

But then you look yourself in the face and say where's

Where do you think we can go with faces like ours

With ten bucks you can't get away

It's not even enough at the pizzeria

Stop a second at the vending machine

At least on foot it won't leave us stranded

In this city

La la la la la

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SONG MEANING

Con Un Deca is a playful yet bittersweet trip down memory lane. Club Dogo and Max Pezzali recall those teenage nights when having un deca (a 10 000-lire bill) felt like a passport to endless fun—pizza slices, cigarettes, a spin through town at 3 a.m. The lyrics paint Milan as a city of two nightclubs and 106 pharmacies, full of quirks, paranoia and dreams. Fast-forward to adulthood and that same deca can’t even cover a snack, let alone an escape. The song turns inflation into a running joke while highlighting how growing up often shrinks our sense of possibility.

Behind the humor lies a gentle dose of realism: money is tight, fame is unlikely, and the city can feel claustrophobic. Yet the chorus keeps insisting “Con un deca non si può andar via” as a rallying cry, reminding listeners that imagination and friendship still get you further than cash alone. It’s a nostalgic anthem for anyone who has ever cruised around with friends, pockets nearly empty but heads full of big ideas.

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