τωρα θ' ανοιξω τα φτερα translation issues

I've got a few queries about Arleta's New Wave song "τωρα θ' ανοιξω τα φτερα", youtube video here for anyone who wants to listen to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef68tge_g-c

Here are the lyrics, my queries are what these lines really mean:
a) όμως η αγάπη δεν κρατά καιρό, I'm guessing 'how love doesn't/can't hold back time'
b) τώρα πια θα φύγω μίλια μακριά, I'm guessing 'now I will go many miles further away'

Thanks!

The song (from the stoixoi site):

Τους πικρούς βοριάδες πάνω στο βουνό
και τα κυπαρίσσια δεν θα ξαναδώ
τώρα θα σ’ αφήσω και θα πάω μακριά
τώρα θ’ ανοίξω τα φτερά.

Τα μεγάλα βράδια το μικρό γιαλό
πίσω θα τ’ αφήσω δεν θα ξαναρθώ
για μεγάλους δρόμους για βαθιά νερά
τώρα ανοίγω τα φτερά.

Πίστεψαν οι νύχτες, πίστεψα κι εγώ
όμως η αγάπη δεν κρατά καιρό
[τώρα πια θα φύγω μίλια μακριά
τώρα θ’ ανοίξω τα φτερά. 2]

Current translation so far:

The bitter north winds on the mountain
and the cypress trees I will not see again
now I will leave you and go far away
now I will open my wings

The broad evenings and the small shore
I will leave them behind and not return.
For great roads and deep waters
now I open my wings

The nights believed, and I believed
how love can't hold back time
[now I shall go many miles futher away
now I will open my wings] x2

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The sentiment seems more Anglo/Scotch-Irish than Greek, I wonder if the appearance of 'miles' isn't a hint of that - did Greece ever use miles as a unit of distance?

Originally Posted by AveryA3

Here are the lyrics, my queries are what these lines really mean:
a) όμως η αγάπη δεν κρατά καιρό, I'm guessing 'how love doesn't/can't hold back time'

...but love doesn't last long...

Originally Posted by AveryA3

b) τώρα πια θα φύγω μίλια μακριά, I'm guessing 'now I will go many miles further away'

Correct

Originally Posted by AveryA3

The sentiment seems more Anglo/Scotch-Irish than Greek, I wonder if the appearance of 'miles' isn't a hint of that - did Greece ever use miles as a unit of distance?

Yes it did But your question is absolutely logical. I didn't exist when Greece used miles as a distance unit

Thanks very much! Whether she's channelling the S-I's or not, I find Arleta very cool.

It certainly does not sound like a Greek song (other than the language it's sung in, of course). Maybe it is a Greek version of an English ballad. Incidentally, AveryA3, good job translating.

I have a friend who knows much more than I do about Scotch-Irish stuff - perhaps she will come up with something. Replacing 'hold back' with 'withstand' would take on board safe1's correction, I'm also not quite happy with the flow of the second-to-the last line, but perfection is usually out of reach ...

Kilometers doesn't really sound poetic, does it? Even if Greece hadn't used miles I'm sure that word would still be used in songs. Like "Xilia mila makria" by Sakis Rouvas. We really used to use miles?

[now I shall go many miles futher away
now I will open my wings] x2

Actually, I can't think of any way to improve that, AveryA3

Originally Posted by feuersteve

Actually, I can't think of any way to improve that, AveryA3

Neither can I, but I'm thinking that μεγαλους δρομους should probably just be 'big roads', from what I find googling it.

Originally Posted by AveryA3

Neither can I, but I'm thinking that μεγαλους δρομους should probably just be 'big roads', from what I find googling it.

"Now I will go many miles away" - Just leave out the "further"

and for great or big roads, use "Highways"

ps It's "Scots" not "Scotch" Scotch is a drink.

όμως η αγάπη δεν κρατά καιρό/ but love doesn't last a long time
τώρα πια θα φύγω μίλια μακριά/ now I'll go miles away

The most litteral translation that can be. The rest of the song is all correct.

Originally Posted by Mixalopoulos

"Now I will go many miles away" - Just leave out the "further"

and for great or big roads, use "Highways"

ps It's "Scots" not "Scotch" Scotch is a drink.

Done! but for the people I was talking about (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_American), it usually is 'Scotch', though it can also be 'Scots'. E.g. my wife, solidly of that stock, describe herself as 'Scotch-Irish and damn Yankee (Iowa)'.

Anway, here's a result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj5tH5q5IpM