He has stopped working at his problems and has now just left it up in the air as you could say. Stanza 3 is the starting point of where he starts letting it slip away. Stanza 2 I believe talks about how he had distanced himself from his problems and he thought we wasnt going to be able to get through them until he tried to and in the process of that he alienated himself from everyone else. Each stanza, with the exception of the first and last which are acting more as an introduction and conclusion of the whole relationship, describes different point of the relationship and how he messed things up. All of these are describing what went wrong in the relationship, but I also believe these to be a story of a downward evolution of the relationship. He goes on through out the song giving more examples of how things went bad for his love. He describes these short comings as 'castle in the sky', 'fearless drive in rain', 'wild sinful night' and 'angry painful song'.

The opening line 'my first love was a wicked twisted road' sets the stage for the rest of the song by telling us that his love was all over the place, obscure, and unpredictable. I believe this song to be a tragic testiment of a man who had love and let it go due to his mistakes. Yeah my first love was an angry painful song I wanted one so bad I went and did everything wrongĪ lesson in reality would come before too long Yeah my first love was a wild sinful night I ran out with the big dogs guess I had more bark then biteĮven thought I won the battle in the end I lost the fight Yeah my first love was a fearless drive in rain They say god was crying so I guess he felt my pain Scared to death I thought I'd never see her face again My first love was a fearless drive in rain Yeah my first love was a castle in the sky I never thought I'd make it 'till I had the guts to tryĪnd I sat up in my tower while the whole world passed me by Yeah my first love was a wicked twisted road I never saw the rainbow much less a pot of gold I hit the million mile mark at seventeen years old

My first love was a wicked twisted road