Test D'Ingresso Di Medicina Lyrics in English Pinguini Tattici Nucleari

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Test D'Ingresso Di Medicina by Pinguini Tattici Nucleari from Italian to English.

In the cold and dark hours of philosophy

Where the same questions are always answered

Why are we here? Where are we going? Does God exist?

Did the egg come first or the chicken Mc nuggets?

I wondered if I had invited you to the cinema

What movie would you have preferred to see

Some sloppy love film or intellectual

In the dogma 95 or fourth power style

So maybe I fell in love with you

Because I had nothing else to do or maybe

Because my grandmother wanted me to bring a girl to lunch

To show her that I wasn't gay

What an enchanted fairy tale high school was

And the notes inside the calculator

And the trips to modern art museums

I thought I could do that too!

I also thought that since you're so beautiful, you must have some flaws

Maybe you're from the league or a Jehovah's Witness, maybe you're missing a kidney

Maybe I take Trenitalia too often

But I don't believe in coincidences

And if you're here, it's because God wants me to throw the nicest jacket I have

Into a puddle

We dreamed of medicine

The nihilism of a black and white 1920s film

Watched on an HD TV

We dreamed of medicine

And losing our wings and halo wandering

Crushed by the sky above Pavia

But no one will ever pass the medical school entrance exam

No one will ever pass the medical school entrance exam

But I will

The truth is that the rain was drowning us

And we had fun using the umbrella

As a boat, and now that we're all soaked

Our mothers will kick us out of the house and never let us back in

Always keep the fear of stepping on

The line that divides one tile from another

Or you'll fall into the lava and dissolve

And then your mother will come looking for me

How are you? How are you? All good?

Nothing new on the occipital front?

Maybe now you're so smart

That you could pass the medical test

But my love, how ugly to discover that we're normal

And to understand the study method only the night before exams

Blaming anxiety for every failed endeavor

And at the end of days, thinking hypocritically that

All in all, we had a good life

You are the sky in a room, I am claustrophobia

You are World War, I am the frog war

You are Keira Knightley, I am Klaus Kinski

You are the concert at Wembley Stadium, I am a record store

You are the song Anthem, I am the filler song

You never greet but you're clean, I always greet and I'm a serial killer

You are a suffragette, I am an Afghan woman

You are daddy's girl and I am Franz Kafka

You are the graduation grade, I am the high school grade

You ran away and I'm still here

Studying nursing

So it will be easier to try again next year even though I know

No one will ever pass the medical school entrance exam

Not even me, not even you

Outro

But Tullio will

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SONG MEANING

“Test D'Ingresso Di Medicina” catapults us into the messy, hilarious headspace of a student in Italy’s final year of high school. Between late-night philosophy classes and rain-soaked trips on Trenitalia, the narrator juggles impossible questions (Does God exist? Which movie should we watch?) with an even tougher one: Will anyone ever pass the entrance exam for medical school? Wrapped in references that swing from Dogma 95 films to McNuggets, the lyrics paint a collage of teen crushes, parental expectations and the terrifying legend of that infamous test.

Beneath the jokes and rapid-fire cultural shout-outs lies a bittersweet truth: growing up often means discovering you are “normal,” full of anxieties, and prone to last-minute cramming. The song celebrates this shared insecurity while poking fun at the myth of perfection, suggesting that failure can be just as unifying—and entertaining—as success. In the end, our hero settles for nursing school, still dreaming of medicine, because hope (and maybe Tullio) might just beat the odds next year.

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Pinguini Tattici Nucleari Test D'Ingresso Di Medicina Lyrics