Her relationship with Jeter brought her hope in that time, and inspired two of her 1997 songs. "I can never forget that moment," she told Vulture of their first kiss on the top of Jeter's apartment building, which inspired the song "The Roof." She added, "I mean, it's not like it was some intensely deep, intellectually stimulating — again, it was a great moment, and it happened in a divine way because it helped me get past living there, in Sing Sing, under those rules and regulations."
"My All" was about risking her life to spend a night with him in Puerto Rico. "I'd risk my life to feel/Your body next to mine/'Cause I can't go on/Living in the memory of our song/I'd give my all for your love tonight," she sings in the song (via Genius).
Unfortunately things between Jeter and Carey didn't work out, and they ended up parting ways in 1998. "The media pressure was just too much for them," Carey's spokesperson, Cindi Berger, told Entertainment Weekly at the time.
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