Lyric discussion by sweety555 

Cover art for Hand to Mouth lyrics by George Michael

As for verse 5 could be the baby has become an overbearing overweight person living with a man who is older than her. She is not free to make her own decisions regarding money (she asked her daddy and her daddy said yes). She gives a little(drugs) in exchange for a lower monetary value than they are worth. Generally the people are experiencing pverty not only in moetaary terms in terms of freedom, time, choice etc.