That's roughly what I was going to say. :) I've been playing Ingress a little under a year.

Also, I finally worked out what the image of the melting heart was making me think of. It's Dave Carter's lyric in Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love "and the wax heart weeps and blisters/and it's burning where he kissed her", which calls back to the candle imagery earlier in the song. Oh look, an earworm.