It seems to me to be about someone who is not loved by her mother and does not necessarily know what being loved is. Because she wants to believe she is loved, she takes her mother's feeding her to be love. And because she craves love so much, she eats up all she can get, probably with no satisfaction of her desire.
As far as the “houses” part, it brings to mind many images. But I get the impression that the singer sees families falling apart all around her, and she does not want hers to, although it likely already has, and she just does not want to accept it. This ties back to the way she is insistent that she and her mother are loving, thus clinging on the lie that her family is loving.
It seems to me to be about someone who is not loved by her mother and does not necessarily know what being loved is. Because she wants to believe she is loved, she takes her mother's feeding her to be love. And because she craves love so much, she eats up all she can get, probably with no satisfaction of her desire.
As far as the “houses” part, it brings to mind many images. But I get the impression that the singer sees families falling apart all around her, and she does not want hers to, although it likely already has, and she just does not want to accept it. This ties back to the way she is insistent that she and her mother are loving, thus clinging on the lie that her family is loving.