Lyrics
Came to Rome with ink‑stained hands
Country dust on marble walls
Saw you under painted arches
Laughing like you owned us all
Married star in stolen starlight
Every rule bent at your grin
Spoke my name like whispered magic
And the world changed its spin
Every fingertip a prophecy
Every glance a blazing oath
Lesbia, Lesbia, Rome's young heart on fire
Torchlight in your eyes, my blood a rising choir
"Vive, ama," you breathe, and every wall falls down
Let them talk in shadows, we will wear the crown
Lesbia, Lesbia, I wrote you into stone
No one ever loved like this, or burned so bright alone
Shuttered rooms near broken temples
Veil and virtue on the floor
You said "my Catullus" softly
I believed that "my" meant more
Friends said you were roaming thunder
Storm on every Roman roof
I just kissed the edge of lightning
Called it fate instead of proof
Built a temple in my ribcage
Let your footsteps wear it thin
Lesbia, Lesbia, Rome's young heart on fire
Every stolen night another turn upon the pyre
"Vive, ama," we swear, drunk on secret wine
Let the Senate choke; your pulse is my divine
Lesbia, Lesbia, I stake my name and art
On the ruthless orbit of your changing heart
Whose ring on your table?
Whose hand on your door?
At the feast you share a goblet
With the friend who knows my songs
His hand lingers on your wristbone
Every heartbeat feels all wrong
Your public smile is tight and distant
Never reaches to your veins
I turn verses into autopsies
Charting laughter, lies, and names
Tell myself a goddess' temple
Has a thousand kneeling fools
Lesbia, Lesbia, Rome's young heart in doubt
Every alley where we kissed now shuts me out
"Vive, ama," you said, but you were never mine
I was just another boy beneath your shrine
Lesbia, Lesbia, your vows were wax and sun
Melted while I swore that you were only one
Hear them praise her "lovely" brother
Lesbius, the golden snake
Lesbia smiles a little brighter
More for him than I can take
Whispers coil around their laughter
Blood too close and eyes too warm
I stand outside my own verses
Watching rumors breed a storm
Every ode turns iron nail now
Every "dear" a hammer blow
Lesbia, Lesbia, I hate you as I kneel
Crown of every kiss now thorns I'm forced to feel
"Vive, ama," you laugh while I hang on this cross
Strangled by the poems that count my loss
Lesbia, Lesbia, you gut my trust for sport
Still my shattered heart drags back to court
I hate and I love
Same breath, same blade
Bless you, damn you
Crave you, fade
Tear your name from every line
There it grows between the rhymes
Someone far from Roman stone
Reads my wound and knows their own
You love crowds the way you loved me
I'm just one more name you burned
Call you goddess, call you harlot
Either way the wheel has turned
Thought my ruin was a first act
Private script in Roman dust
Then I hear my cracked confession
Echo in a thousand throats
I'm not healed and you're not holy
But this hurt is not just mine
Lesbia, Lesbia, you're the flame that marked my skin
You did not make me special, only showed what fire I'm in
"Vive, ama," we swore, and watched the promises corrode
You took love like city streets, I took it as a sacred ode
Lesbia, Lesbia, I leave you in these lines
Not as shrine or sermon, just the truth of how it dies
Let the Tiber drown our secrets
Let your doorway lose my name
I walk on with embers in my chest
But I know now what I gave