Heart's Grown Cold

The speaker describes a painful, unequal relationship. They feel deeply attached, while the other person seems distant and may be caught in a harmful habit. At first, the speaker sounds angry and accusing, repeating that the other person’s heart has grown cold. But the tenderness of touching their lips and listening to their breathing reveals love as well as hurt. The speaker still hopes the other person has dreams and can come back to say things are better.

“Heart’s grown cold” is a metaphor: it suggests that someone has become emotionally distant or less caring, not that their heart is literally cold. “Hang on every breath you take” means paying close, anxious attention to someone; it also shows how strongly the speaker depends on them. The phrase “heartaches to climb” presents sorrow as a difficult climb, something the other person must face or get through.

The repeated accusations may be an attempt to make the other person recognize the damage their choices are causing. “Habit” could mean an addiction or another repeated behavior, but the lyrics do not specify which. The speaker’s claim that the other has “no soul” sounds like an angry exaggeration rather than a calm judgment. Beneath the blame, the song leaves room for concern: the speaker hopes the other person still has dreams, even as they fear that love and closeness are fading.