Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead Lyrics
A green plastic watering can
For a fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
It wears her out
It wears her out
It wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
And it wears him out
It wears him out
It wears him out
It wears
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time
All the time
Oh
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Colin Charles Greenwood, Edward John O'Brien, Philip James Selway, Thomas Edward Yorke
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"Fake Plastic Trees" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead from their second studio album The Bends released in 1995. It was the third single to be released from that album in the UK, but in the US it was the band's first single from the album.
According to band singer Thom Yorke, the song was recorded as the band had just been to see Jeff Buckley play a set at The Garage in London; when they got back into the studio, Yorke recorded the vocals in one take and broke down in tears at the end. Read Full Bio"Fake Plastic Trees" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead from their second studio album The Bends released in 1995. It was the third single to be released from that album in the UK, but in the US it was the band's first single from the album.
According to band singer Thom Yorke, the song was recorded as the band had just been to see Jeff Buckley play a set at The Garage in London; when they got back into the studio, Yorke recorded the vocals in one take and broke down in tears at the end.
The song's lyrics are about Canary Wharf in London and about the world of mass marketing and mass consumption. One source of frustration for the band at the time was their US record label, Capitol, who wanted a strong track for American radio to follow the success of their previous hit single, "Creep". Surprised that the slow paced "Fake Plastic Trees" was seen as a potential single to follow up "Creep" , Yorke ultimately realized the label had remixed the track without his approval: "Last night I was called by the American record company insisting, well almost insisting, that we used a Bob Clearmountain mix of it. I said 'No way'. All the ghost-like keyboards sounds and weird strings were completely gutted out of his mix, like he'd gone in with a razor blade and chopped it all up. It was horrible."
According to band singer Thom Yorke, the song was recorded as the band had just been to see Jeff Buckley play a set at The Garage in London; when they got back into the studio, Yorke recorded the vocals in one take and broke down in tears at the end. Read Full Bio"Fake Plastic Trees" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead from their second studio album The Bends released in 1995. It was the third single to be released from that album in the UK, but in the US it was the band's first single from the album.
According to band singer Thom Yorke, the song was recorded as the band had just been to see Jeff Buckley play a set at The Garage in London; when they got back into the studio, Yorke recorded the vocals in one take and broke down in tears at the end.
The song's lyrics are about Canary Wharf in London and about the world of mass marketing and mass consumption. One source of frustration for the band at the time was their US record label, Capitol, who wanted a strong track for American radio to follow the success of their previous hit single, "Creep". Surprised that the slow paced "Fake Plastic Trees" was seen as a potential single to follow up "Creep" , Yorke ultimately realized the label had remixed the track without his approval: "Last night I was called by the American record company insisting, well almost insisting, that we used a Bob Clearmountain mix of it. I said 'No way'. All the ghost-like keyboards sounds and weird strings were completely gutted out of his mix, like he'd gone in with a razor blade and chopped it all up. It was horrible."
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"Fake Plastic Trees"
Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
It wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out
If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time
All the time
All the time
An McCLO
started over
read a
making, sure
still there
and everything,
came out
alright love,
the simple
fights, already
there and
keep me
focused loving,
history beats,
from no
vocals, just
creations, growing,
open rehearsal
An McCLO
stories, i
make and
wake in
darkness, sentence
structure swearing,
all i
really need
is, a
little bit
of over
time curious,
to know
my answer
with out
development i
sit spin
and wonder
with whom
makes, keeps,
and gives,
back all
my breaks
testing, 1,2,1
Peter Smith
Heard this blasting out of my teenage daughters room last night. My work is done here
Diana G
Nice work. 👍😁
Silver Bat
@VinnieThePuuh yeah but having diagnosed depression isn't just a bad thing either. it's just a thing. and we're valid and we CAN find happiness. Zen has helped a lot
Tenci Oviedo
I’m happy you both like Radiohead. My parents don’t let me listen to them because they find them depressing :c
I listen to Radiohead though, when they’re not watching :P
Ben Fitzgerald
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Luis Vazquez
@Tl 1995 LOL Exactly what I thought
saransh
Radiohead comment section is the most depressingly wholesome place on the internet
Terry Anderton
Just came here to make sure you're alright
Florida Cracka
No that's Tumblr you're thinking of.
Adam Donovan
@Honeastly Nuts *had