Talk:Helplessly Hoping

Original recording
I believe the recording has Stills in the center singing the low part starting with A, Crosby on the left playing the mid part starting with C and Nash on the right playing the high part starting with E. Can somebody confirm?

ICE77 (talk) 22:29, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Citation within article
The information presented in this article has not been cited, and therefore the validity is questionable. D.lupick (talk) 00:15, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Judy Collins
This song is purportedly about Judy Collins. This is one of the songs Stills spat out during his "PLEEEZE marry me, Judy!" period. Harlequin was a Commedia dell'arte character of lowly rank, often shown with a lute, who sometimes pursued ladies above his class. Believe it or not, that would have been a fitting alter ego for Stephen in 1968, when he was far from being a superstar. 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. He falls for her "true gentle spirit", she says the word he's waiting for, and they begin a torrid affair. 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. Judy's not so sure, however. 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 wonders if she's about to dump him, or if he ever even had a chance with her in the first place. 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). Keach apparently gets along great with the kid, too, and poor Stephen is out of the picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.40.152.27 (talk) 17:59, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Lockdown cover
I believe the paragraph about the Italian lockdown cover video is hardly relevant, since this song has been covered countless times before, I don't see why this particular one should be featured here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.64.75.183 (talk) 08:57, 14 May 2020 (UTC)