Thanks Michael - I enjoyed listening to the song, especially as I like Satie very much.
 Wondering what to say besides this, I thought of relating the poem to the topic of the art market. The frog, who is perhaps the artist, doesn't need money. What would satisfy the frog? What does he need to eat? Not the pieces of money people throw at him. That brings him no profit, the song says. What then does the frog want?

Notice also that the form of the mouth when saying the word "Mot," is like a kiss.  The frog wants to kiss. That I would relate to Edna's post saying that art is the study of love, and a post I just wrote discussing that.

(Is anything I'm saying in the poem, hard to say, I found it not very understandable while liking the music.)

ps. just continuing to think about this - the frog wants a kiss, and what happens when the frog gets kissed - he turns into a prince.

Thanks Michael for sharing this song here. What is clear is the difference of material between the frogs. One is heavy, immobile and lifeless and has its mouth open on the syllable “mot”- word. I agree that he might want a kiss and is in search of love, and another way of reading it is that the frog wants to be able to speak, to have “content”, in Hebrew the word content is “tochen” which literally means having an interior, which the frog doesn't have. Or in other words, the frog wants to “matter”.

Reading lately Seneca, here is a passage that is interesting on the subject : “Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely cause and matter. Matter lies inert and inactive, a substance with unlimited potential but destined to remain idle if no one sets it in motion ; and it is cause (this meaning the same as reason) which turns matter to whatever end it wishes and fashions it into a variety of different products.” (Letter LXV) I actually recommend reading the rest of the letter which brings then the example of a bronze statue.