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"Mégu megún" (that can be translated to "Quack doctor") is a satirical song written entirely in Genoese dialect with the help of Mauro Pagani and Ivano Fossati that helped him write the lyrics.
The song has a world music feel, with Pagani playing several ethnic instruments and singing backing vocals in an invented, pseudo-African language ("ooh welele, ooh welelele").
"It talks about the long complaint of an imaginary patient against his doctor, guilty of wanting to get him out of bed. What scares the poor hypochondriac is contact with people, people who ask questions, dirty people, people ready to steal money with some stratagem, people who, naturally, despise diseases. The tone is dark, even in one passage of the song the labored breathing of the patient is reproduced. In the end the patient will decide that it is better for him not to go out, and will remain, like Oblomov, a prisoner of his bed, intent on dreaming perhaps of a less dangerous society than in reality. "
(Matteo Borsani - Luca Maciacchini, Anima salva, p. 149)
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