Okay, here is where I over-analize things;
When I first Heard that Counting Crows Song, It floored me; I wondered how someone could create something so hauntingly beautiful from such tragic circumstances. In case the meaning completely escapes you, it is a story about Albert Einstein reflecting on the atom bomb.
Albert is said to have lamented his release of the equations governing atomic fission.. "...I would have been a locksmith", would be his most famous lament. In the same vein as Laslo Hollifeld from the film Real Genius -- when he realized the stuff he was making was killing people, something inside him broke.
Although he was still the same Einstein, most of his close associates felt he had become subdued and lost his glitter and love of life after the uses of 'the bomb' in WWII. Nuclear physics is no place for the sensitive.