Contigo En La Distancia Lyrics in English by Il Divo
Consuela comes from the verb consolar, meaning to comfort or console. It's a beautiful and emotive word that captures a deep sense of solace.
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Contigo en la Distancia is a Cuban bolero written by Cesar Portillo de la Luz in 1946, and Il Divo recorded it for their 2015 album Amor y Pasion, giving the standard a four-voice, orchestral arrangement. The lyric never really describes distance at all — it stays inside one man’s head, insisting no melody plays and no daylight breaks without her in it: “Ni yo quiero escucharla” (“Nor do I want to hear it”), he says of any song she hasn’t heard first. The quartet keeps circling back to the title line itself, “Contigo en la distancia” (“With you, in the distance”), each time landing on “Amada mía, estoy” (“My beloved, I am”) — the sentence trailing off because the thought was never really about being anywhere; it was about being with her.
