Pero menos dudar?

Question

Good morning,

I'm struggling to understand this part of a song by Camila called Todo cambió. The lyrics go like this: Y no hay como explicar / Pero menos dudar / Simplemente así lo sentí / Cuando te vi. The translation provided at lyricstranslate.com confuses me a bit: And it's difficult to explain / But it's even harder to take notice (and so on).

The only meaning of dudar that I know is "to doubt", is there an alternative meaning as the one in the translation - to take notice?

And I'm not sure about "menos" here either, neither "less" nor "it's even harder to" as per the translation make much sense to me. The expression that would make sense to me would be "but without doubt" or "but there's no doubt" but for this maybe "sin" should be used instead of menos. In other words I don't understand what a comparative word is doing here, what does it compare?

Answer 1

Y no hay como explicar

Pero menos dudar

Simplemente así lo senti

Cuando te vi

It's impossible to explain

and even less possible to doubt

I just felt like that when I saw you.

I fear my translation is less poetic. - annierats, Jul 22, 2013

I'd say it's spot-on - diagonx, Jul 22, 2013

It's perfect, thank you :) Now it makes sense. - Manity, Jul 22, 2013

Cheers! - annierats, Jul 22, 2013

Yeah annie....congratulations! - 0095ca4c, Jul 22, 2013