Lyrics to "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead -submitted by The Conventional Paradox Shipped straight from the city of culture and learning, Radiohead is perhaps the most cerebral and intellectual band today. Their songs have a multitude of interpretations, and "Fake Plastic Trees" is no exception, with interpetations ranging from the precedents for life to plastic surgery... 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, it wears her out She lives with a broken man A cracked polystyrene man Who just crumbles and burns He used to do surgery On girls in the eighties But gravity always wins And 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 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