En Attendant La Fin (“While Waiting for the End”) pulls you onto an emotional roller-coaster where faith, fear and hope collide. M. Pokora paints the picture of those rough days when the “train derails,” friends vanish, and even summer sunshine feels like falling snow. In these crises we instinctively look up to something bigger than ourselves—God, fate, the universe—searching for a lifeline while our inner angels weep at the window.
Yet beneath the storm clouds the song is a rallying cry: live now, love hard, chase the infinite. Pokora admits he does not want to “miss his train,” so he urges us to break free from nightmares, grab every chance, and keep hope alive even when it seems to have died. Life, he reminds us, is a coin flip between “light or dark, love or glory, defeat or victory,” but the real failure is not trying. Until the final curtain falls, the chorus encourages us to burn bright, scream our truth, and leave a mark that no one can forget.
M. Pokora is a French singer, songwriter, and dancer born Matthieu Tota on September 26, 1985, in Strasbourg, France.
He got his start on the reality show Popstars with the group Linkup before going solo in 2004 as Matt Pokora. A 2005 lawsuit from R&B singer Matt Houston forced him to shorten his name, and "M. Pokora" stuck for the rest of his career; the stage name itself comes from a conversation with his Polish grandmother about humility, "pokora" in Polish.
Since then he has become one of France's biggest pop stars, blending pop, R&B, and dance influences across albums like R.E.D. and Pyramide. His 2016 album My Way, a tribute to the legendary French singer Claude François, went straight to number one in France. Off stage, he is married to the actress and singer Christina Milian.