Who Is The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Song Our House Really About?

According to highly documented folklore, Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash connected romantically thanks to David Crosby, who had his own whirlwind romance with the singer. Crosby invited Mitchell to a party he threw for Nash, and the two hit it off instantaneously. "After that party I went home with Joni and spent a couple of years with her in her home in Laurel Canyon," writes Nash in another excerpt from "Wild Tales," posted at Performing Songwriter. Somehow the three were able to live, love, and create music together (and about each other), despite their tangled relationship roots.

These romantic dalliances were taking place in before, during, and immediately after 1967's Summer of Love, so it was no surprise that a bunch of singers with bleeding hearts, unchecked emotions, and the unquenchable desire for validation found themselves in bed together. Combine those urges with the fact that they were all singer-songwriters and you have an endless discography of culture-shaping songs that describe the painful frivolousness of youth. The relationship eventually ended (per the New York Post) when Joni Mitchell broke up with Graham Nash via a letter, which stated, "If you hold sand too tightly, it will run through your fingers." 

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