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Album The Bends
Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead
Release Date
Performed by
RadioheadProduced by
John LeckieWrited by
Ed O’Brien & Jonny Greenwood & Colin Greenwood & Thom Yorke & Philip SelwayAbout
A fine example of Radiohead’s “post-grunge” / “pre-electronic” phase on The Bends.
The song is supposed to be a call against consumerism. While recording the song, the band went to a Jeff Buckley concert in Highbury. Returning to the studio, mesmerized by Buckley’s set, Thom sang the song twice bef...
Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics
[Verse 1]
A green plastic watering can
For a fake Chinese rubber plant
In a fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plants
To get rid of itself
[Chorus]
It wears her out
It wears her out
It wears her out
It wears her out
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
And it wears him out
It wears him out
It wears him out
It wears
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
And it wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
[Outro]
And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time
All the time
Fake Plastic Trees Q&A
Who wrote Fake Plastic Trees's ?
Fake Plastic Trees was written by Ed O’Brien & Jonny Greenwood & Colin Greenwood & Thom Yorke & Philip Selway.
Who produced Fake Plastic Trees's ?
Fake Plastic Trees was produced by John Leckie.
When did Radiohead release Fake Plastic Trees?
Radiohead released Fake Plastic Trees on Mon Mar 13 1995.
What did Radiohead say about "Fake Plastic Trees"?
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Yorke said that this was the song where he found his lyrical voice. He cut the vocal, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, in one take, then the band filled in its parts around him. Yorke said the song began as “A very nice melody which I had no idea...