Translation of the song lyrics Running Against The Grain - Franco Battiato

Running Against The Grain (original)

Ho attraversato la vita inferiore
Seguendo linee per moto contrario
Sfruttando per le mie vele
Flussi di controcorrente
Cercando sempre le cause
Che mi hanno insegnato ad andare
Con disciplina anche contro le mie inclinazioni
From time to time
I remember your face so near to me
Marmoree scogliere lontane
Spezzano ogni forza in mille spume
L’odore domina sovrano il profumo delle cose
In verità non mi sono mai legato e adesso
La mia vita fugge in diagonale
Ritorna prepotentemente un desiderio morale
La mia vita cerca fughe in diagonale
Per accelerare le calde influenze del sole
I remember your face so near to me
Osservo la mia condizione
Il mio prezioso ed alterno passato
Le mie bizzarre imprese
Sono mercurio colorato
Un salto oltre ciò che abbassa
Pinna in altro mare e intanto
La mia vita fugge in diagonale
Ritorna prepotentemente un desiderio morale
La mia vita cerca fughe in diagonale
Per accelerare le calde influenze del sole
Never look in backward
My heart is beating with you
Running to tomorrow
And my wild heart is beating
As much but never broken
Indipendente la mia vita fugge
Yeah my wild heart is beating
As much but never broken
Indipendente la mia vita fugge
Listen to tomorrow

(translation)

I went through the lower life
Following lines for reverse motion
Leveraging for my sails
Countercurrent flows
Always looking for the causes
Who taught me to go
With discipline even against my inclinations
From time to time
I remember your face so near to me
Distant marble cliffs
They break every strength into a thousand foam
The smell dominates the scent of things
In truth I have never bonded and now
My life runs diagonally
A moral desire returns overwhelmingly
My life seeks to escape diagonally
To accelerate the warm influences of the sun
I remember your face so near to me
I observe my condition
My precious and alternating past
My bizarre exploits
I am colored mercury
A leap beyond what lowers
Pinna in another sea and in the meantime
My life runs diagonally
A moral desire returns overwhelmingly
My life seeks to escape diagonally
To accelerate the warm influences of the sun
Never look in backward
My heart is beating with you
Running to tomorrow
And my wild heart is beating
As much but never broken
Independent my life runs away
Yeah my wild heart is beating
As much but never broken
Independent my life runs away
Listen to tomorrow