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Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics — Radiohead | Dork

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Fake Plastic Trees

From Fake Plastic Trees1995

Produced by John Leckie

Lyrics

Fake Plastic Trees

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 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

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"Fake Plastic Trees" is a song by Radiohead from the album Fake Plastic Trees, released in 1995. It was produced by John Leckie.

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