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Frédéric Lerner – Jusqu’au bout

March 30, 2009 at 10:56 am Print This Post Print This Post

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…

Verbs
LâcherTo release, to let go
Je me battrai jusqu’au bout, je ne lâcherai rien
I will fight to the end, I will never let go
Se battreTo fight
Je me battrai jusqu’au bout, je ne lâcherai rien
I will fight to the end, I will never let go
Vocabulary
Le rangRung, rank (social class)
Dans ce monde où l’on juge le rang, l’identité
In this world where we judge class, identity
Phrases / Idioms
Envers et contre tous/toutIn spite of everyone/everything
Je me battrai jusqu’au bout envers et contre les miens
I will fight until the end in spite of my background

Notes

  • Je ne lâcherai rien – literally “I will not release anything”, “I will never give up”, or perhaps better yet “I will never let go”.


Jusqu'au bout - Frédéric Lerner
 
Until the end (translation of Jusqu'au bout by Frédéric Lerner)
Je sais qui je suis
Et je sais d'où je viens
Vous m'le faites bien comprendre
Je n'suis pas d'ici
Et pourtant pas si loin
Mais pourquoi s'en défendre ?
Dans ce monde où l'on juge
Le rang, l'identité
Moi, je n'suis pas bien né
Oui, mais c'est ça ma différence
Ne vous fiez pas aux apparences

Je me battrai jusqu'au bout
Je ne lâcherai rien
Et même si je tombe à genoux
Même si les autres me disent que c'est la fin
Je me battrai jusqu'au bout
Envers et contre les miens
Malgré les larmes et les coups
Je serrerai les poings

Pour aller jusqu'au bout

Laissez-moi grandir
laissez-moi respirer
Ne vous approchez pas
Chacun a son livre, son Dieu pour exister
Mais laissez-nous le choix
Dans ce monde où l'on juge
Avant d'avoir été,
Qu'est-ce qu'on peut vous prouver
Si vous nous laissez pas la chance
De pouvoir enfin nous faire violence ?

Je me battrai jusqu'au bout
Je ne lâcherai rien
Et même si je tombe à genoux
Même si les autres me disent que c'est la fin [x2]

Je me battrai jusqu'au bout
Envers et contre les miens
Malgré les larmes et les coups
Je serrerai les poings

Je me battrai jusqu'au bout
Je ne lâcherai rien
Même si je tombe à genoux
Je me battrai
Jusqu'au bout
 
I know who I am
And where I come from
You made me well understand it
I am not from here
But yet not so far away
But why defend oneself?
In this world where we judge
Class, identity
Me, I am not well born
Yes, but that's my difference
Don't trust appearances

I will fight until the end
I will never let go
And even if I fall to my knees
Even if other people tell me it's the end
I will fight until the end
In spite of my background
Despite the tears and the blows
I will tighten my fists

In order to go until the end

Let me grow
Let me breath
Don't approach me
Everyone has their book, their God to live
But leave us the choice
In this world where we judge
Before having been
What can one prove to you
If you do not give us the chance
Of at least being able to try

I will fight until the end
I will never let go
And even if I fall to my knees
Even if other people tell me it's the end [x2]

I will fight until the end
In spite of my background
Despite the tears and the blows
I will tighten my fists

I will fight until the end
I will never let go
And even if I fall to my knees
I will fight
Until the end

Guitar Chords

Verse
Cm / Ab / Eb / G x3  (or with a capo on the third fret Am / F / C / E)
Ab / G (capo 3 = F / E)

Chorus
Cm / Ab / Eb / A (capo 3 = Am / F / C / G)
Cm / Ab / Eb / G (capo 3 = Am / F / C / E)
Cm / Ab / Eb / A (capo 3 = Am / F / C / G)
Ab / G (capo 3 = F / E)

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Comment by Beverly Foster

Made Tuesday, 19 of May , 2009 at 9:40 pm

Did you by any chance ever figure out the chords to “tu manques” (first album, “On Partira”)? The harmonic changes take my breath away.

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Made Thursday, 21 of May , 2009 at 3:44 pm

[...] received some feedback on a previous post (Jusqu’au bout – 30th March 2009) asking if I knew the chords to another Frédéric Lerner track, “Tu [...]

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Made Friday, 25 of September , 2009 at 4:22 pm

[...] Good old “I’m on a mission” lyrics as well for inspiration. Translated back in March 2009 Je me battrai jusqu’au bout, je ne lâcherai rien I will fight to the end, I will never let [...]

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