Con Un Deca Lyrics in English Club Dogo , Max Pezzali

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
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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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