I think the song is about like a corrupted cult leader or holy man.
The first verse is about how someone confided in him about some crime he committed and he how he turns the man in gaining all the love of everyone without caring what happens to the man... he's becoming a cathedral that everyone worships. But maybe the time isn't right to proclaim himself as a god or prophet.
The second verse is about a suicidal girl that he comforts. He takes advantage of her and gets her paranoid about everything and faithful only to him, gaining her love and the love of everyone again for taking in such a damaged girl. Still the time isn't right to proclaim himself as a god.
The last verse is how he started having relations with a girl... maybe an affair.. but they got caught. They punished her while he ran away to a new town where no one knew him... and started all over again.