“We’re looking for something dumb to do/Hey baby/I think I wanna marry you,” it reads. The title of “Marry You” suggests something more romantic than what actually transpires. “Ah, what do we have?/Another pretty thang ready for me to grab/ … So many eager young bunnies that I’d like to pursue.” That’s followed by a not-so-subtle double entendre: “There’s only one carrot, and they all gotta share it.”īruno’s breezy attitude toward sex shows up again on “The Lazy Song,” where he daydreams about hanging around watching MTV before finding someone to hook up with: “Meet a really nice girl, have some really nice sex/She’s gonna scream, ‘This is great!” Other lazy-day activities include walking around his house naked (“I’ll just strut in my birthday suit/And let everything hang loose”). Then he coolly assumes the role of shameless sexual predator on “Runaway Baby.” “Well looky here, looky here,” he leers. “Just go with it/ … And I will go real slow/ … It’s our first time.” He’s apparently successful in his seductive attempts, because soon he’s suggestively cooing, “Oh, girl, you’re so delicious/Like ice cream on a sunny day/Gonna eat you up before you melt away.” “Girl, don’t need to be nervous,” Bruno sings. Instead, it’s about Mars trying to convince someone he doesn’t seem to have known long (“‘Cause it’s so brand new, baby”) to shed her inhibitions and clothes to have sex with him-never mind that she might be hesitant to do so. “Our First Time” is not, as you might have guessed from the suggestive title, about a couple’s first cup of coffee. Give “Runaway Baby” credit for its honesty as Bruno advises potentially interested ladies that he’s actually “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” and that the only wise response to his seductive ways is to get away as soon and as far as possible: “To every girl that I meet here, this is what I say/Run, run, run away, run away baby.”
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“Talking to the Moon” lurks in similarly melancholy territory, as Bruno tells the moon and stars about his broken heart … and hopes, somehow, that the one who broke it might hear him (“At night when the stars light up my room/I sit by myself/Talking to the moon/Tryin’ to get to you/In hopes you’re on the other side”). “Grenade,” in contrast, finds the singer on the other end of the romantic spectrum, lamenting that the woman he would have given his life for turned out to be a cunning deceiver. “If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea,” he sings, “I’ll sail the world to find you.” On “Just the Way You Are,” he wants the object of his affection to know that he thinks she’s beautiful, no matter what she thinks she looks like. “Count on Me” majors on loyalty and dependability, with Mars promising he’ll go to great lengths to help a friend in need.
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