Spoiler alert: Grenade isn’t going to encourage anyone to sign up. Now Ray is among the waves of men storming Okinawa’s beaches.Īlan Gratz has told a marvelous story that the publisher says is for 9- to 12-year-old readers but is actually a fine tale for anyone with an interest in Okinawa or what war is really like. His father beat him when he tried to sign up before he turned 18, but after that birthday, his father knew he couldn’t stop him. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Ray Majors is a freckle-faced Marine from Nebraska. One is to kill as many American soldiers as possible, and the other is to be used to commit suicide. The Japanese officer in charge of the middle school boy-soldiers has given them each two grenades. The time has come-and it’s even worse than he had feared. He was 13 then, but near enough to 14 to feel he should stay and fight. Hideki, 14, stayed in Okinawa when his mother and younger brother evacuated to mainland Japan.
The pain of unrequited love becomes the peaceful awareness that she wasn’t the right girl for him: a mature step forward that we all need when coming to terms with a breakup.It’s April 1, 1945. The song honestly describes how she misbehaved with him and didn’t deserve his love. Writing the lyrics for Grenade was a personal growth path for Bruno Mars: he succeeded in recognizing the remaining feelings he had for the girl, but he managed to convert them into awareness. 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 a bullet in my brain for you, and why can’t I get that kind of love in return?’ It’s a heartbreaking, heartbreak song, and I think everyone can relate to that. You tossed it in the trash, yes, you did Is Grenade a breakup song?Īfter all, that’s the question that many people ask, and the answer is: yes, Grenade is a breakup song. Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash As long as the song goes on, we can feel the singer’s disappointment: Indeed, we can see that the lyrics inside Grenade go from the love expressions of the beginning to the accusations in the second half. Tell the devil I said, “Hey,” when you get back to where you’re fromīruno Mars said that writing this song was “therapeutic” for him. And through a funny metaphor, he asserts that she comes from hell: Therefore, although he still feels something for her, he accuses her of being a false woman who cannot love. The singer, though, knows she didn’t behave right with him. Bruno also had a recent split in those days: the song’s inspiration comes from how he related to that topic while listening to his friend Benny Blanco playing (Bruno Mars revealed it in this interview with Idolator).
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As the song’s co-writer Claude Kelly told in an interview with The Tennessean, all those lines come from a series of small jokes Bruno Mars was making one day at the studios while talking with a guy working there who went through a bad breakup. They are all hyperboles of the extreme sacrifices the singer was keen to make for her. What you don’t understand is I’d catch a grenade for ya The song’s chorus is dramatic: Bruno Mars exaggerates, explaining everything he would be keen to do to have her: As a symbol of her cold heart, the song recalls the first kiss, when she kept her eyes open, indicating that she wasn’t involved enough. She appears as a selfish girl who only aims for her pleasure and cannot return what she receives. Had your eyes wide open, why were they open?
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