This gives us a feeling of a one-sided relationship. He’s asking “Why were they open?” just to emphasize that she never actually loved him. Most of the scenes then are about the man, in a suit, dragging an upright piano through the streets of busy traffic and gangsters to get to the girl’s house. Why would he do that? Why a piano? This recalls us the man is Bruno Mars, a singer. Even his fictional character is also a singer. He would rather sing out loud to express his love and the piano is played as a means to deliver his message: “I’d catch a grenade for ya, throw my hand on a blade for ya, jump in front of a train for ya…” He keeps repeating those refrains to show that he would endure all the craziest and dangerous things for his woman such as pulling a heavy piano all the way to her house. The piano symbolizes his sufferings, his thoughts and his sadness. He’s been hauling the piano just as he’s been bearing those things all his life. The line “Gave you all I had….and you tossed it in the trash” is what best describes the girl’s reaction. This scenario can relate to a lot of people who are madly in love, sacrifice all they have but get nothing than ignorance. After being rejected, he continues on the road with the piano. He’s singing the last lines of the chorus as if he was whining, “I’d still catch a grenade for ya…”. His whine affects people’s emotion who did or do have the same situation. The video ends with the man standing in the middle of oncoming traffic and a truck is running towards him while he keeps singing “I would die for you….but you wouldn’t do the same”. The point is he kills himself with that piano. He brings it to death with him, as if it was something that implies himself, as if it was something in which he stores his love and all the feelings he has, as if it was his heart or the heavy thoughts in his mind. We might never know why he dies with it, but we have a sense about the abstract concept of it. Because it’s mysterious, it’s the highlight of the video.
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