The second female vocalist right on the heels of the first This is the title song from the album Ça ma vexe. If anyone has any idea what the singer means by les soirées watchi watcha then please let me know.

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The pace is coming down several notches now. It’s time to put up a song with a female vocalist, and surely Carla Bruni, being married to the French President himself, is a fair candidate to be the first lady on my blog.

Guitar chords provided at end of post.

Another straightfoward translation without too much complexity.

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I can get an extra few minutes out of my workout on the treadmill if I have this song at the end of my playlist. The YouTube clip below is a live performance which loses some of the energy of the recorded version but gives a slightly different look at the song.

Jusqu’au bout “until the end” is from the album Ça passe ou ça casse “it works or it fails” (meaning I’m going do this thing whatever the result… let’s hope for the best).

Seeings as I’ve just sat here and figured out the chords to this one, I’ve put them at the end of the post if you fancy strumming it.

Not a great deal of complexity here in the translation…

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This is quite a heavy song from the album En Route Pour La Joie – this one’ll wake you up in the morning!

Je suis un homme pressé – “I’m a busy man” or “I’m a man in a hurry”. A long song in terms of the number of words! Plenty of useful phrases.

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This is the first French song for which I learned the lyrics by heart – J’aurais bien voulu – “I would have really liked”, from the album Dances of Resistance. There are a lot of English language songs on that album but two of the best are in French – this one, and De la Musique et de la Bruit. I can’t find this album on iTunes, unfortunately.

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