I dunno, but it sounds to me like he loves this woman so much, but he can still feel his pain, in spite of how much he loves her, and want to do right. He feels empathy for the pain he is causing her, because she loves him, and she feels HIS pain. Kind of like a catch 22. On one hand he is feeling he must separate from her, and wants her to separate from him (smash my picture on your wall), because of the painful empathy. On the other hand, that painful empathic bond is also keeping him hanging on, even as he feels he is close to the end (Some kind of magic in all your hopes and fears
Shows me the future through the tracks of your tears). The tracks of your tears is about the pain she feels because of his suffering...those tears are for him. And on the one hand he does not want to cause her suffering, on the other hand, it is like a lighthouse in his own pain, that is dragging him under.
I dunno, but it sounds to me like he loves this woman so much, but he can still feel his pain, in spite of how much he loves her, and want to do right. He feels empathy for the pain he is causing her, because she loves him, and she feels HIS pain. Kind of like a catch 22. On one hand he is feeling he must separate from her, and wants her to separate from him (smash my picture on your wall), because of the painful empathy. On the other hand, that painful empathic bond is also keeping him hanging on, even as he feels he is close to the end (Some kind of magic in all your hopes and fears Shows me the future through the tracks of your tears). The tracks of your tears is about the pain she feels because of his suffering...those tears are for him. And on the one hand he does not want to cause her suffering, on the other hand, it is like a lighthouse in his own pain, that is dragging him under.
That is how it feels to me.