FAKE PLASTIC TREES
(Thom Yorke)
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.
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 him out.
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
&
It wears me out, it wears me out.
It wears me out, it wears me out.
(Thom Yorke)
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.
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 him out.
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
&
It wears me out, it wears me out.
It wears me out, it wears me out.
4 comments:
Thom being the frontman of Radiohead of course.
I love this song soooo much!
Me too! I can't believe the critics initially passed on The Bends. That one holds up next to OK Computer and Kid A any way you look at it. Just "Planet Telex," this song, and "Street Spirit" make it an instant classic, nevermind songs like "My Iron Lung" and the rest. Dimbo press only changed tune when those latter albums were proclaimed the second coming. Why is there even a music press when the street pulse is always at least two steps ahead?
Amending my last comment: Apparent the UK press loved this album, it was only mostly passed over in the US. OK Computer was what got Americans on board, and then it was go time.
Even though I feel OK Computer is the better album, it's a concept album like Dark Side of the Moon and hard to listen to individual tracks. Usually you just sit down and take in the whole thing.
With The Bends, you can pull out individual songs that you feel like right then, and there's value in that. And "Fake Plastic Trees" just gets to me every time. It's so empty and depressing and yet so beautiful.
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