“Tu Orgullo” by Carla Morrison, English translation of lyrics

“Your Pride”
Album: Déjenme Llorar (Let Me Cry), 2012
Style: Alternative, mellow, quieter song. Carla Morrison sings about her experience with a selfish lover. Her music is melancholy with a light hand. This song is both a self-reproach for letting herself be in this situation, and a protest over how she is treated. I love her voice.
Country: Mexico, USA (Arizona)
Listen: YouTube

Translation:

¿En qué momento perdí
El control de mis sentimientos
Cuando decidí
Aceptar tus secretos?

At what moment did I lose
Control over my feelings,
When I decided
To accept your secrets?

¿En qué momento deje
Hacerme daño con todo esto?
¿Cuándo, dime, que no ves
Que perdí el conocimiento?

At what moment did I let
Myself get hurt with all of this?
When? Tell me, don’t you see,
That I blacked out?

Y a la locura se metió a mi piel;
Los recuerdos no dejan de volver.
Cuando quiero por fin comprender,
Mis dudas visitan mi fe.

And the lunacy has jumped into my skin;
The memories don’t stop coming back.
When I finally want to understand,
My doubts shake my faith again. [*lit. My doubts revisit my faith.]

Que injusto, tu orgullo,
Desgarra a mi mundo.
(x2)

How unfair, your pride, [*informal “your”]
It tears apart my world.
(x2)

¿En qué momento entregue
La suma de todos mis besos
Y me intercambie
Por un minuto de su tiempo?

At what moment did I surrender
The sum of all my kisses
And exchanged myself
For a minute of your time? [*formal “you”]

¿En qué momento vacié
Mis ganas por su reencuentro?
¿Cuándo, dime, cuándo fue?
Que yo ya ni me acuerdo.

At what moment did I toss out
My desires (in exchange) for meeting you again?
When, tell me, when was it?
Because I do not even remember anymore.

Por ti yo me quiero arrepentir,
Pero mi pulso ya no tiene ese fin.
Cuando quiero por fin comprender,
Mis dudas visitan mi fe.

I want to feel regret over you,
But my heartbeat can no longer do that. [*lit. But my pulse no longer has that end.]
When I finally want to understand,
My doubts shake my faith again. [*lit. My doubts revisit my faith.]

Que injusto, tu orgullo,
Desgarra a mi mundo.
(x2)

How unfair, your pride,
It tears apart my world.
(x2)

Translation Notes:

Desgarra a mi mundo.

It tears apart my world.

The noun la garra (the claw, the paw) is the root for the verb desgarrar (to tear apart, to rip up).

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¿Cuándo, dime, que no ves que perdí el conocimiento?

When? Tell me, don’t you see that I blacked out?
When? Tell me, don’t you see that I lost consciousness?

conocimiento [m. noun] = consciousness; cognition

The phrase perder el conocimiento (lit. to lose consciousness) means “to faint” or “to pass out”, but can also imply “to black out” in the acting-but-not-conscious-of-it sense. Since she is asking about when the relationship went wrong, I think the latter meaning is intended.

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Y me intercambie por un minuto de su tiempo?

And exchanged myself for a minute of your time? [*formal “you”]
And exchange myself for a minute of their time? [*third person plural]

The su in this line could be interpreted as either pronoun, but I think she means “you” because the song narrative is directed at another person. I think this line is mimicking the polite formal form that one would use if they were asking someone for a moment of their time, which is a weird thing to do in a close relationship, thus emphasizing the emotional distance between her and her lover.

Or… she is talking to herself and “their” is correct instead. Also possible.