Verno pseto [English translation]

When I am old, flimsy and bold

and when I am worth half of a bad verse

when I start to chase white mice on table

when I am finished, near to disaster

When I am worth nothing*

when I stuck somewhere in the last hole

and become a man with a thousand flaws

then be the one, then pick me up

Ref. 2x

You will have at the end

when all that pass away

what you wanted

your faithful dog

Put me in warm, heal me slowly

you read how animals are being tamed

let meds be sights and words

you'll squeeze, I guess, few drops of kindness

When you make a man again out of me

and when you save me from people and noise

I'll stay with you to the end of my life

ready even to lick salt from your hand

Ref. 3x