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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My favorite from the album “The Bends” all people who have depression,wish you best days in the future 🖤🖤🖤🙏
JF V
Merci mec,
Paolo Brama
Thank you peaceful man 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Aurko Mitra
Nice pfp, another masterpiece, Animals ;)
lordklem
Thanks but it’ll never end, it ends when I die. Then I can be at peace, my mind won’t have to be subjected to the agony of being alive.
Gabe
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J.Guier
Radiohead is one of the few bands that make me feel melancholic, nostalgic and euphoric all at the same time. They're honestly like a drug to me. I can listen to them when I'm sad, happy or anything in between and I always come out feeling better afterwards. They're honestly one of the greatest bands in existence.
TheHurwitzLab
I
love your comment here almost as much as the song. yours an the person that said I'm jealous of anyone listening to this tune for the first time. if we we can simultaneously listen to it with the mindset of that " new car smell" and at the same time with the depth and feeling of having to listened to it a hundred times, i think i will be able to achieve that thanks for your awesome comment. i have never heard anyone put it that way but that is how i feel. i think Thom Yorke would like your comment as well.
Shea Wager
Yh man.
Junior Salim
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