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seikun

Could someone help me out with this Japanese?

かすれた声に凍えた手で
空を掴むように求めてた

It's from SectMateria's Cyanosis. I think I understand the basic idea...; him looking for a way to seize the sky with his frozen hand(s), but the かすれた声に凍えた part has me all complicated because I don't know it fits in logically. I know 凍える is an intransitive verb but it looks as if it were saying something like "with my hands that froze the husky voice", but intransitive verbs don't have an object they affect. かすれた声に is such a challenge. I'm lost here >.<
- March 31, 2019
1. JRD
  
  My interpretation is: with my faint voice and frozen hands; I desire to reach for the skies.
  
  March 31, 2019
  
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2. plastic_rainbow
  
  i think it can also be interpreted as "with these frozen hands on my husky/faint voice", just my opinion. haven't listened to these guys in a while btw. i remember liking this song.
  
  March 31, 2019
  
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3. seikun
  
  The problem is how かすれた声に is affected by 凍えた or what its relationship with 凍える is because 凍える is an intransitive verb so it doesn't an object. に is supposed to be used when expressing the indirect object but still, with my poor Japanese that doesn't seem to make sense either.
  
  April 1, 2019