Everyone knows Bruno Mars, (henceforth “Bruno”). He is the writer and singer of beautiful, cooing, and sensitive songs that have no doubt gotten many an adulterous man out of the doghouse. However, you don’t know the true Bruno. He is in-fact not the man you think he is. Lets take a close look at the chorus of his most recent song, “Grenade.”
I’d catch a grenade for ya
Throw my head on a blade for ya
I’d jump in front of a train for ya
You know I’d do anything for ya
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for you, baby
But you won’t do the same
It looks like a pretty standard affair. Deep, everlasting love unrequited. In fact, he loves her (likely the listener of the song, henceforth “you”) so much, that he would do all of these painful things for her.
The first seven lines are all essentially the same statement, but it is vague what “for ya” means. I find that the grenade example is the most illustrative, as it is the name of the song. Its implied that he would shield her from the blast of a grenade (a rather gruesome ordeal; one must smother the live grenade with ones gut, shielding the explosion but more importantly the shrapnel with his body). This is probably the most romantic thing to say about your loved one. Your life is more important than mine; life without you is not life at all; my love for you transcends my most primal instinct to survive.
However, there comes a turning point in the chorus, which I have formatted for emphasis. It culminates at this line: “But you won’t do the same.” Bruno is deeply hurt that his love for you is not matched. He wishes that you thought your life was less important than his; he can’t understand why you wouldn’t shield him from the blast of the grenade.
It logically follows that your life is not more important than his, or else he would be repulsed at the thought that you would bring any harm to yourself on his behalf. If Bruno really loved you as much as he says he does, why would he want to cause you harm? Obviously Bruno’s sentiments do not lie in true love. His words are empty.
It is only important that his love is one step beyond yours. Its only important that he gets to wallow in his self pity, and paint you as an uncaring person.
“You’re so in love with this woman and you don’t understand, ‘What am I doing wrong? What am I not giving to you? I’ll go as far as putting as putting a bullet in my brain for you, and why can’t I get that kind of love in return?” -Peter Gene “Bruno Mars” Hernandez
Bruno is just sad because you don’t love him as much as he loves himself. Don’t bother, though, because if you would catch a grenade, then I’m sure he would be willing catch two.
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I was wandering through the Net trying to find somebody out there who actually think this song is creepy rather than romantic. Other than a couple hundreds of prepubescent girls swooning over Mr. Mars’ every words as if they understood anything he is saying in his song at all and calling everybody who don’t like his song morons and other choice names, I came across very few people who understood the message of this song. This song is showing a guy who is a very creepy case of obsessive compulsive disorder and broadcasted as if coming too hard onto somebody is the most romantic thing in the world. No wonder why relationships have never been so short as they are today. A guy who would kill himself for ‘ya’ is not a guy who loves ‘ya’ but a guy who needs to seek medical advices.