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

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
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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