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

When we always answer the same questions

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

Did the egg come first or the Chicken McNuggets?

I wondered, if I'd invited you to the movies

Which movie you'd have preferred to watch

Some shabby love flick or an intellectual-ish one

Dogma 95 style or Citizen Kane style

So I fell in love with you maybe

Because I had nothing to get high on, or maybe

Because my grandma wanted me to take to lunch

A girl so she'd realize I wasn't gay

What an enchanted fairy tale senior year was

And the little notes inside the calculator

And the trips to modern art museums

I could've made it myself, this one!

I also thought that you, being so pretty, must have some flaw

Maybe you're with the League or a Jehovah's Witness, maybe you're missing a kidney

Maybe it's because I ride 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 own

Over some puddle

We dreamed of med school

The nihilism of a 1920s black-and-white movie

Watched on an HD TV

We dreamed of med school

And losing wings and halos while wandering

Crushed by the sky over Pavia

But nobody will ever manage to pass the med school entry test

Nobody will ever manage to pass the med school entry test

But I will

Truth is, the rain was drowning us

And we had fun using the umbrella

Like a boat, and now that we're all soaked our

Moms will kick us out of the house and never open the door again

Always keep the fear of stepping

On the line that divides one tile from the next

Or you'll fall into lava and dissolve

And your mother will then come looking for me

How's it going? How are you? All good?

Nothing new on the occipital front?

Maybe now you're so smart

That you'd pass the med school test

But my love, how awful to find out we're normal

And only get the study method the night before the exams

And blame anxiety for every botched attempt

And at the end of days hypocritically think that

All things considered, we've had a good life

You're the sky in a room, I'm claustrophobia

You're the world war, I'm the batrachomyomachia

You're Keira Knightley, I'm Klaus Kinski

You're the Wembley Stadium concert, I'm a record shop

You're the anthem song, I'm the filler track

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

You're a suffragette, I'm an Afghan woman

You're daddy's little girl and I'm Franz Kafka

You're the graduation grade, I'm the high school one

You ran away and I'm still stuck here

Studying nursing

So it'll be easier to try again next year, even though I know that

Nobody will ever manage to pass the med school entry test

Not even me, not even you

Outro

But Tullio will

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“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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