Contigo En La Distancia Lyrics in English by Il Divo
Consuela comes from the verb "consolar," meaning to comfort or console someone in pain. It's a tender, emotional word often used in heartfelt ballads to express deep sadness and the search for relief from sorrow.
In the song, the line "Ya nada me consuela" ("nothing comforts me anymore") captures a feeling of total emptiness, where not even the things that once brought peace are enough to ease the singer's longing.
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.
