This is one of the songs Stills spat out during his 'PLEEEZE marry me, Judy!' period. Remember, guys, it's all about Judy Collins. Keach apparently gets along great with the kid, too, and poor Stephen is out of the picture. She eventually hooks up with Stacy Keach (Stills and Keach probably didn't meet in the stairwell, but that's a good metaphor for seeing that you have competition). He wonders if she's about to dump him, or if he ever even had a chance with her in the first place. The rest of the lyrics suggest Judy is doing a variant on the whole 'it's not you, it's ME' thing (she is going through therapy around this time, and he thinks it's a bunch of BS). He decides that she's the one, endears himself to her son Clark (yes, I think that's the 'three') and hopes for a future together. He falls for her 'true gentle spirit', she says the word he's waiting for, and they begin a torrid affair.

Buffalo Springfield was coming apart, CSN was not on the radar yet, and he was making ends meet as a session guitarist for, among others, Judy the reigning queen of folk music. Believe it or not, that would have been a fitting alter ego for Stephen in 1968, when he was far from being a superstar. Harlequin was a Commedia dell'arte character of lowly rank, often shown with a lute, who sometimes pursued ladies above his class.

Lyrics to suite judy blue eyes