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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
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
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
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 submitted by piesupreme, edited by Dennis527, Radiohead123, fathousefly, JohnTheSavage1, ParanoidAndroid8, jackhandey
Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics as written by Colin Charles Greenwood Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Come on we've all been there right? In our fake plastic love? You know? That person that you knew deep deep down would never work out, but you thought they were beautiful or special, and thereby you were being fake pretending to be something you were not with that person.
Trying to make that person happy by being fake. It wears you out. Somehow though you keep hanging on for along time because he or she tastes and looks like the real thing....you think if this relationship ends you might blow through the ceiling; you can't help the feelings you still have for the person...but the relationship wears you out and you are living on borrowed time as you know in the long run it could never work...it's fake and plastic.
Add: In the end you know if you could be who your partner wanted it would work..but you can't, you can only be yourself in the end because gravity wins.
adn - you completely changed my entire concept of what this song meant, completely nailed it<br /> <br /> thats what I'm going through, i know there was a reason i drifted to this song
A++ on that write-up.
@adn No, it's a song about sex, sex has a plastic quality, but to abuse it only causes ageing and heartache. "If l could be who you wanted...al the time"<br /> It talks about how people grow old..."she lives with a broken man that crumbles and burns..did surgery in the eighties, but gravity always wins"<br /> People waste their sexual energies in their youth, which makes them grow old faster.<br /> "She looks like the real thing...my fake plastic love"... Men fall for physical attributes and physical pleasure, but that is not the essenc of love, it's about caring for the actual person.<br /> "I could blow through the ceiling" he ejaculates<br /> "If l just turn and run" part of him wants to just give it up, run away, to conserve his energies and youth. In the clip an old man is holding 2 guns. Representing the wasted sexuality of his youth.
@adn It’s actually about death and reincarnation. But when your life is defined by bad and broken relationships, often that’s all you will see in music.