Pulp Songs - Bar Italia Lyrics

Pulp - Bar Italia

Pulp - Bar Italia Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Different Class
Released: 1995

Bar Italia Lyrics

Now, if you can stand
I would like to take you by the hand, yeah
And go for a walk
Past people as they go to work

Let's get out of this place before they tell us that we've just died
Oh, move, move quick, you've gotta move
Come on it's through, come on it's time
Oh, look at you, you, looking so confused
Just what did you lose?

If you can make
An order
Could you get me one?
Two sugars would be great
'Cause I'm fading fast
And it's nearly dawn

If they knocked down this place, this place
It'd still look much better than you
Oh now, move, move quick, you've gotta move
Come on, it's through, come on, it's time
Oh, look at you, you, you're looking so confused
Oh, what did you lose?
Oh, it's ok it's just your mind

If we get through this alive
I'll meet you next week, same place, same time
Oh move, move quick you've gotta move
Come on, it's through, come on, it's time
Oh, look at you, you, you're looking so confused
Oh, what did you lose, oh?

That's what you get from clubbing it
You can't go home and go to bed
Because it hasn't worn off yet
And now it's morning
There's only one place we can go
It's around the corner in Soho
Where other broken people go
Let's go

Writer/s: BANKS, NICK / COCKER, JARVIS BRANSON / DOYLE, CANDIDA / MACKEY, STEPHEN PATRICK / SENIOR, RUSSELL / WEBBER, MARK ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bar Italia Song Chart

In May 1995, Vox magazine interviewed Pulp during the recording sessions for Different Class, which would be released in October of that year. Whilst there, they got an exclusive preview of "Bar Italia," and described it as being "about the mixed delights of heading out into the dawn chorus in that ungodly hour before the milkman whistles his merry tune, nursing the after-effects of a good night out on the E or whatever in search of a reviving cappuccino."

The 'E' reference links across to one of their most popular singles of the period, "Sorted for E's and Whizz."

There is a real-life Bar Italia located on 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, and it is likely that this is where songwriter Jarvis Cocker got the title for the song from.

The song remained both a band and fan favorite, and remained in the band's live repertoire on and off right through their first breakup and successful reunion in the late 2000s - it was the penultimate song in the regular set of their "farewell" show on December 8th at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, their hometown.