Judy Blue Eyes Really About?

According to an interview with Collins in The Guardian, her relationship with Stills mostly fell apart because of distance. "My center was in New York and his in LA," she said. "He hated New York and he hated therapy. And I was in both."

The song touches obliquely on the facts of this breakup — it even references Collins' time in therapy with a controversial therapist, with the line "Will you come see me Thursdays and Saturdays?" referring to her standing appointment, per one of Collins' books, "Singing Lessons."

After he completed the song, Stills played it for Collins. Both of them cried, she told the Guardian. "I said: 'Oh, Stephen, it's such a beautiful song. But it's not winning me back,'" she recounted.

But Collins loved "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," and never shied away from her association with it. Years later, in fact, she called one of her memoirs "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes" (via Amazon).

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