New Lace Sleeves Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Motown1 

Cover art for New Lace Sleeves lyrics by Elvis Costello

Check out "The Right Specticle" DVD. Great video of this song. This is one of my favorites. You hit this very well. He can't stand the "socialite sisters" but he lusts for them (or wants to be in their money circle) anyway.

I think that "I want to be one of them" refers to wanting to be one of the problems afflicting the socialite sisters.