When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky

This song sketches the situation of Jesus returning to an unprepared church, his bride. She is in embarrassment because her neglect of her groom is obvious: After some time for thinking about their relationship she is just burning his letters.

I think that “It won't matter who loves who, / You'll love me or I'll love you” means that discussions on each other’s love will make no sense in this situation because the deficiencies in love are obvious. The time of living separately has not been easy for her, and she has been looking for comfort at wrong addresses (“flirting with disaster”; “protecting someone last time I called”).

“Stick around, baby, we're not through” gives her another chance (which is in conflict with some relevant predictions in the New Testament). She will have to seek him “and you'll find me in the wasteland of your mind”. Though the consequences of her failure have been serious: “I saw thousands who could have overcome the darkness, / For the love of a lousy buck, I've watched them die.”