Are you the
one Bruno Mars regrets?
When he
sings, “I hope he buys you flowers, and holds your hand, gives you all his
hours, when he has the chance,” is he wishing he hadn’t taken you for granted?
Bruno croons
that he was wrong and that he knows it’s probably too late to apologize for his
mistakes.
He says the
loss of you haunts him every time he closes his eyes.
And the
problem with that is:
We all want
to be you.
We all think
we are that girl. In so many break
ups we just know that boy doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s going to regret
leaving me.
Someday,
like Mariah said, the one you gave away will be the only one you’re wishing
for.
And then
Bruno agrees: he does wish for her, for me, for you.
It doesn’t
matter if you’re twelve and suffering your first rejection as I was when Mariah
told me that there would be a time when that boy would be cold and lonely but I
wouldn’t need his love anymore.
Or if you’re
19 and Alanis Morissette tells you he’ll feel it when you scratch your nails
down someone else’s back.
Or Natalie
Merchant suggests sometimes when he makes love to her he might say your name.
We all want
to be the one that got away.
