Selección Natural Carmen Lancho Translation Meaning and Lyrics

Song Meaning

'Selección Natural' means 'Natural Selection' in English. It is a name of a song by 'Carmen Lancho' human translated here by a native speaker.

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Original Lyrics: Vuelvo a no comer nada en todo el día

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Aligned Translation: I go back to not eating anything all day

Free Translation: Back to eating nothing all day

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Original Lyrics: El estómago cerrado y ganas de vomitar

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Aligned Translation: A closed stomach and the urge to vomit

Free Translation: Stomach knotted, nausea creeping in

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Original Lyrics: Vuelvo a tener las peores pesadillas

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Aligned Translation: Back to having the worst nightmares

Free Translation: Back to the worst nightmares

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Original Lyrics: No consigo ni dormirme del miedo que me dan

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Aligned Translation: I can't even fall asleep from the fear that they bring me

Free Translation: I can't even fall asleep from the fear they bring

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Original Lyrics: Y cómo me gustaría volver a las pastillas

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Aligned Translation: And how I'd like to get back on the pills

Free Translation: And how I'd like to get back on the pills

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Original Lyrics: Dejarme de terapia y volverme a medicar

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Aligned Translation: Quit therapy and getting back on medication

Free Translation: Quit therapy and getting back on medication

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Original Lyrics: Vuelvo a no poder lavarme ni la cara

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Aligned Translation: Back to being not able to wash even my face

Free Translation: Back to being unable to wash my face

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Original Lyrics: Solo pensar en ducharme me hace ponerme a llorar

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Aligned Translation: Just thinking about taking a shower makes me cry

Free Translation: Just thinking of showering makes me cry

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Original Lyrics: Vuelvo a sentir mis latidos como balas

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Aligned Translation: Back to feeling my heart beats like gunshots

Free Translation: Back to feeling my heart beats like gunshots

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Original Lyrics: Se hacen eco en mi garganta y no puedo respirar

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Aligned Translation: Echoing in my throat and I can't breathe

Free Translation: Echoing in my throat till I can't breathe

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Original Lyrics: Si siguiera habiendo selección natural

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Aligned Translation: If natural selection still existed

Free Translation: If natural selection still existed

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Original Lyrics: Se de una que se habria muerto ya

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Aligned Translation: I know of one who would have died by now

Free Translation: I know of one who would have died by now

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Original Lyrics: El ejemplo perfecto de la generación de cristal

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Aligned Translation: The perfect example of the crystal generation

Free Translation: The poster child for the crystal generation

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Original Lyrics: No me hables con ese tono que me pongo a llorar

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Aligned Translation: Don't talk to me with that tone cause I start to cry

Free Translation: Don't use that tone or I'll start to cry

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Original Lyrics: Que me pongo a llorar

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Aligned Translation: That I start to cry

Free Translation: I'll start to cry

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Review

The lyrics depict the suffocating weight of depression through visceral imagery ("Se hacen eco en mi garganta y no puedo respirar"), framing mental health struggles as a brutal evolutionary mismatch. The narrator suggests they would not survive under natural selection ("Si siguiera hablando selección natural, Sé de una que se habría muerto ya"), portraying depression as an invisible yet lethal force .  

Lancho delivers the narrative with chilling detachment over deceptively bright instrumentation, creating dissonance that mirrors depression's isolating reality. Her restrained vocal delivery amplifies the numbness of mundane acts like not eating or showering, while the contrast between lyrical bleakness and melodic warmth reflects the hidden nature of emotional pain. The storytelling avoids melodrama, using clinical biological metaphors to convey silent despair .  

No explicit content, but the song explores mature themes of mental illness and suicidal ideation through evolutionary metaphors. The tone balances stark vulnerability with ironic detachment—sadness presented as scientific observation rather than overt sorrow .  

The YouTube video available unfolds in a dimly lit apartment, opening with a shot of a TV screen flashing the song’s title. Carmen Lancho sits hunched in near-darkness, her face barely lit by a single lamp as she sings rawly into a microphone, visually embodying the lyric "no puedo respirar" (I can’t breathe). The camera cuts to a separate room where three figures sit frozen: an older man, a younger man, and an elderly woman. A close-up lingers on the woman’s face as she exhales cigarette smoke, her expression vacant. Another elderly woman stretches mechanically nearby, her movements detached, while a young girl plays a haunting flute melody that drifts like a ghost through the rooms. Lancho reappears singing from a shadowed corner, her voice threading through the apartment’s heaviness. In the final scene, she pulls a music tape from a audio player, cradling it like a relic, a silent metaphor for memories that suffocate ("se hacen eco en mi garganta") and the "natural selection" of what survives in our minds.    

 

Related Links:

- Musixmatch Lyrics: https://www.musixmatch.com/es/letras/Carmen-Lancho/Selecci%C3%B3n-Natural

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/7xVJbdbZe2K5pid0Ogr4G3

- Music Apple: https://music.apple.com/es/album/selecci%C3%B3n-natural-single/1801257209

Submitted by user: ANAJOSE

Average Ratings

Most people find the song lyrics easy to understand lyrics, lyrics sung slowly and it has very easy to remember verbs and nouns

Most words used are in very common daily usage.RAE

Selección Natural has 102 BPM (beats per minute)

Selección Natural is suitable for DELE Level students in terms of language complexity.

References

RAE Based on a median word frequency of 18 using the frequency database from the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española)

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