The song is about man's relationship to God. The reason it is in the past tense is because the singer is talking for all of humanity who are sinful people and cannot figure out how to relate to God, whether to continue to sin and have to run for cover or to own up to our troubles and approach God in humility. There is no love story besides the love between God and man.
The extensive amount of Biblical symbolism is tracing man's history briefly from the start, the garden of eden, to the present.
The song is about man's relationship to God. The reason it is in the past tense is because the singer is talking for all of humanity who are sinful people and cannot figure out how to relate to God, whether to continue to sin and have to run for cover or to own up to our troubles and approach God in humility. There is no love story besides the love between God and man. The extensive amount of Biblical symbolism is tracing man's history briefly from the start, the garden of eden, to the present.