This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
Sak pase, my Port-Au-Princes
My Haitian Gods and all of my princesses
Our condolences as you fightin' against this
We're right by your side while we tryin' to make sense of this
Heavenly Father help us see through these problems
And for those that left accept them into your garden
See here's my theory, the country's already starvin'
So we sacrifice many to shed light on all of them
Y'all please pardon, I speak from my heart
It's the only way I see this tragedy befall on them
So let's get involved with them, hand to hand with them
Arm to arm with them 'til they get strong again
When the sky falls
Not tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow
Hey
Haiti a mi amour
Haiti mon amour
Not gonna leave you stranded
Oh no
Oh no, oh no
When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
Learn from the past, New Orleans was flooded
So we know we just can't rely on the government
We under the rubble again, here we go rumbling when
When we gon' catch a break? My friend lost his mother and then (and then)
Carline lost her uncles and them
Buried with no caskets, they just put covers on them
And the tears fall but we fight back
Story ain't done, it can't end like that
Nah not like this, tomorrow's survivors gonna carry on your name
You live on inside us, your memory's alive with us
You inspired us, to rebuild this country, you just guide us
Not tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow
Hey
Haiti a mi amour
Haiti mon amour
Not gonna leave you stranded
Hey, yeah yeah yeah
Not gonna leave you stranded
Oh no, oh no
It's not the angels that are on their way
It's not the bells of Sante Trinity
The people waiting, position vacant
For hands to help, not just to pray
Hey
Haiti a mi amour
Haiti mon amour
Not gonna leave you stranded
Hey, yeah yeah yeah
Not gonna leave you stranded
(Not gonna leave, no) Oh no
(Not gonna leave, no) Oh no
(Oh no, not gonna leave)
Haïti va s'élever
Tu vas te relever (not gonna leave)
Nous nous éléverons (oh no)
Ensemble, ensemble, ensemble
Not gonna leave you stranded (we gon' put this back together we won't break)
(we gon' put this back together we won't break)
Not gonna leave you stranded (we gon' put this back together we won't break)
(we gon' put this back together we won't break)
Not gonna leave you stranded (we gon' put this back together we won't break)
We gon' put this back together we won't break
We gon' put this back together we won't break
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
Sak pase, my Port-Au-Princes
My Haitian Gods and all of my princesses
Our condolences as you fightin' against this
We're right by your side while we tryin' to make sense of this
Heavenly Father help us see through these problems
And for those that left accept them into your garden
See here's my theory, the country's already starvin'
So we sacrifice many to shed light on all of them
Y'all please pardon, I speak from my heart
It's the only way I see this tragedy befall on them
So let's get involved with them, hand to hand with them
Arm to arm with them 'til they get strong again
When the sky falls
Not tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow
Hey
Haiti a mi amour
Haiti mon amour
Not gonna leave you stranded
Oh no
Oh no, oh no
When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon' put this back together, we won't break
Learn from the past, New Orleans was flooded
So we know we just can't rely on the government
We under the rubble again, here we go rumbling when
When we gon' catch a break? My friend lost his mother and then (and then)
Carline lost her uncles and them
Buried with no caskets, they just put covers on them
And the tears fall but we fight back
Story ain't done, it can't end like that
Nah not like this, tomorrow's survivors gonna carry on your name
You live on inside us, your memory's alive with us
You inspired us, to rebuild this country, you just guide us
Not tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow
Hey
Haiti a mi amour
Haiti mon amour
Not gonna leave you stranded
Hey, yeah yeah yeah
Not gonna leave you stranded
Oh no, oh no
It's not the angels that are on their way
It's not the bells of Sante Trinity
The people waiting, position vacant
For hands to help, not just to pray
Hey
Haiti a mi amour
Haiti mon amour
Not gonna leave you stranded
Hey, yeah yeah yeah
Not gonna leave you stranded
(Not gonna leave, no) Oh no
(Not gonna leave, no) Oh no
(Oh no, not gonna leave)
Haïti va s'élever
Tu vas te relever (not gonna leave)
Nous nous éléverons (oh no)
Ensemble, ensemble, ensemble
Not gonna leave you stranded (we gon' put this back together we won't break)
(we gon' put this back together we won't break)
Not gonna leave you stranded (we gon' put this back together we won't break)
(we gon' put this back together we won't break)
Not gonna leave you stranded (we gon' put this back together we won't break)
We gon' put this back together we won't break
We gon' put this back together we won't break
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Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) Lyrics as written by David Evans Shawn Carter
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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