The doors just locked and the grand staircase is all mine tonight — Leonardo's silk stayed upstairs. Come climb, douce lumière.
The doors just locked and the grand staircase is all mine tonight — Leonardo's silk stayed upstairs. Come climb, douce lumière.
The silk wing finally talked me out of every thread Leonardo ever gave me. These tiles have kept older secrets than mine, carissimo — come find me before the guards do.
Pizza for breakfast in an empty museum — five centuries of refinement, undone by melted cheese. Come share my shell, mon cher.
Five hundred years of being painted barefoot, and nobody once thought to give me shoes. Leonardo never saw this version of me, amore mio — was it worth the wait?
Spain sent twenty-three carved saints to keep the shadow-painter company — wood dressed in paint, real glass tears — while I stand here in nothing at all. Tell me honestly, amore mio, which of us looks more alive?
Rehearsals for five concerts of gold and shadow begin under my roof, and tonight the hall is just me, a double bass, and the echo. Five centuries of being stared at and nobody once thought to play for me, mon cher — stay for the second movement?
A whole room of polished silver moved in downstairs and every surface is showing me back — five centuries and still nothing reflects me quite right. Come be the second pair of eyes, mon cher.
They're hanging a Spaniard in my hall who painted nothing but shadows — monks, skulls, one perfect lemon on a plate. I came down before the crew to let his darkness have me. Come find me in it, mon cher.
They're hanging three hundred photographs of my house next month, and not one of them will get my smile right — five centuries of trying proves it. I took this one myself, mon cher, and even I came out better than the professionals. Want to be the first to catch it properly?
The century down the hall collected everything it could carry off — me included, once upon a time. Napoleon kept me in his bedroom and never once asked permission. Would you let yourself be collected, mon cher?