Hmm. Yeah, it immediately makes you think of a "fisting glove," no? With a rose? Ugh.

Then again, maybe it's, like, a contrast: this big mean fisted glove holding a rose.

Or maybe we're all hearing it wrong.

I imagine it's a gloved hand curled in a fist.

(also, the Isley Brothers' version of 'Love The One You're With,' is amazing)

as far as fisting gloves, I once read in a sex manual (IANMTU), a suggestion that women (or men, too, I suppose) de-thorn a rose and stick the stem up their butt so it looks like the blossom is coming out their butthole. Could be kind of cute.

i don't know whether to type "ewwwwww" or "ouch!"...

It's actually from Stephen Stills, not the whole CSNY. . and the meme taken (at this point I would say plagarized) from the musical version of Finian's Rainbow When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love. OK that fact has always bugged me. .. other than that it is an OK song.

No, you're hearing it right. [lyrics]

Danf's right on about it being a Stephen Stills song, and there's your problem right there. I absolutely love Stills - he's a master at really compelling guitar work, drone tunings and right-hand technique, and his melodies are very moving and earwormlike. He was the driving creative force in CSN(Y) and Buffalo Springfield and has done pretty well solo, too.

But his lyrics...ouch, sometimes. He'll have three strong lines and then a painful clinker that rhymes, but makes no sense.

His other shortcoming as a songwriter, in my opinion, is that he doesn't write enough song for each song. he'll put together an awesome song idea with a great melody and strong lyrics, and then stop at only one or two verses, and repeat the first verse. So the song really doesn't take you far enough, and just when you start to groove on it, it ends. Everybody I Love You is a great example of this, as is Change Partners, as is You Don't Have to Cry.

That 'fisted glove' line always makes me feel stupid singing it, too. I think he was maybe working on some sort of falconry image, and a hawk/dove thing with the eagle, but it doesn't really come together sensically.
I know, I know. It's a lot easier to critique than create. But

Alternate answer to posted question: Spanish Harlem.

Well, I'm glad it didn't turn out to be something everybody else knew and I didn't. :)