Translation of the song lyrics Summer On A Solitary Beach - Franco Battiato

Summer On A Solitary Beach (original)

Passammo l’estate
su una spiaggia solitaria
e ci arrivava l’eco di un cinema all’aperto
e sulla sabbia un caldo tropicale
dal mare.
E nel pomeriggio
quando il sole ci nutriva
di tanto in tanto un grido copriva le distanze
e l’aria delle cose diventava
irreale.
Mare mare mare voglio annegare
portami lontano a naufragare
via via via da queste sponde
portami lontano sulle onde.
A wonderful summer
on a solitary beach
against the sea
«le grand hotel Sea-Gull Magique»
mentre lontano un minatore bruno
tornava.
Mare ecc…

Summer On A Solitary Beach (translation)

We spent the summer
on a lonely beach
and the echo of an open-air cinema reached us
and tropical heat on the sand
from the sea.
And in the afternoon
when the sun fed us
from time to time a cry covered the distance
and the air of things became
unreal.
Sea sea sea I want to drown
take me far away to be shipwrecked
gradually from these shores
take me far on the waves.
A wonderful summer
on a solitary beach
against the sea
"Le grand hotel Sea-Gull Magique"
while a brown miner far away
came back.
Sea etc ...