I think you are right, barely.conscious, but I would like to add something.
I think you can see it prevailing, and the poverty is a metaphor for a bad situation in live in general.
There is someone in the lyrical self's live, who tries to help it and sweetens it's life with ice cream and helps her to ignore or to handle the things better with the cigarettes.
"And takes away my breath [...]
This one's the one
This is the only one
This is the one"
This part discribes the lyrical self's addiction toward the person. When it loses this person, it has lost everything.
Even her breath...
I think you are right, barely.conscious, but I would like to add something.
I think you can see it prevailing, and the poverty is a metaphor for a bad situation in live in general. There is someone in the lyrical self's live, who tries to help it and sweetens it's life with ice cream and helps her to ignore or to handle the things better with the cigarettes. "And takes away my breath [...] This one's the one This is the only one This is the one"
This part discribes the lyrical self's addiction toward the person. When it loses this person, it has lost everything. Even her breath...