The beginning of "The Balance" seems to draw from the first few chapters of Genesis. The narrator describes how a man "took to himself an orange and tasted it, / And it was good." In the creation account in Genesis 1, a similar phrase is repeated: "And God saw that it was good."
Genesis 3:8 describes "the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day," to which "he lay in the cool" in "The Balance" bears some similarity. The description of the orange grove with "the tree above [the man], / And the stars, / And the veins in the leaf" and its "magnificent perfection" could also describe the Garden of Eden.
In the sung parts, "always" in the phrase "the way it's always been" is held for a full measure ("al-" for the first three beats and "-ways" for the last beat). Because it fills the whole measure, there's a musical sense of that permanence.
