lyrics The green plastic watering can For a fake chinese rubberplant 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 And it wears him out And 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 turned and ran And it wears me out It wears me out It wears me out If I could be who you wanted if I could be who you wanted all the time

FAKE PLASTIC TREES (4:52)
available on: the bends & fake plastic trees

FAKE PLASTIC TREES - LIVE AT ROCK CITY (5:28)
available on: the bends - pinkpop edition

FAKE PLASTIC TREES - ACOUSTIC
available on: fake plastic trees , clueless [soundtrack]

FAKE PLASTIC TREES - 2 METER SESSION
available on: het beste uit 10 jaar 2 meter sessies recorded at Bullet Sound Studios, Nederhorst den Berg, Netherlands

FAKE PLASTIC TREES - LIVE AT THE TIBETAN FREEDOM CONCERT
available on: tibetan freedom concert

FAKE PLASTIC TREES - ALMOST ACOUSTIC CHRISTMAS SESSION
available on: kroq's almost acoustic christmas - volume 1

guitar tab: download

notes: mentioned as being about Canary Wharf [London]. phil: "some of my favourite lyrics on the bends - gravity always wins - what a line". ed: this took a while to record only because it was hard to better thom just singing it with an acoustic guitar. amazing lyrics". jonny: "my favourite lyrics from the bends. writing the string parts was my studio highlight, in a megalomaniac kinda way". colin: "er..., deep?" thom: "the product of a joke that wasn't really a joke and a very lonely drunken evening and well, a breakdown of sorts".