Mein Bitte - Jane Siberry

I want a good deal

Better if it’s free

But I charge a lot

Want more money

Don’t want to work

Just want more pay

Cut corners here

Make more that way

(meanwhile…)

I work in a large room

(I work in a room that’s large and bare)

I’m at this workbench every day

(I never miss a day)

I keep my tools very organized

(I have a special place

For all my tools)

This tinny radio is all I play

(I love music)

I’m working on this new invention

(and I’m really, really excited about it)

I think it needs something extra here

(in the evenings I read tool catalogues)

I’m studying the grain of my workbench

(I can fix anything you like)

I’m humming a tune while I wait

For the answer to appear

When I get stuck I go fishing

Put in the clutch so to speak and glide

I coast among the rabble

And the right words

In my work I take great pride

(meanwhile)

I need more things

I need more money

Don’t want to work

Want things for free

Cut corners here

Make more that way

I have no pride

The world is unfair

Wah…

My shop is a long meadow

In a winding landscape

In a series of elevations

With a few cows

And a babbling brook

I love to do what I love to do

This excludes anything I don’t like to do

The pleasure is in the peace of mind

The pleasure is mine

Mein bitte…

Mein bitte: to me it means «my pleasure/what makes one tick