Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees - Amsterdam 8/28/06

"Fake Plastic Trees" performed live at the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, August 28, 2006. Synched with a better audio source. This song seems to be about the world of mass marketing and mass consumption. According to Thom Yorke, it is about Canary Wharf in London. Thom: "The product of a joke that wasn't really a joke and a very lonely drunken evening and well, a breakdown of sorts."

Lyrics:
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

It wears me out, 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, all the time


Thanks to Creepke, MadMaster, and Relentless

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Radiohead
• Fake
• Plastic
• Trees
• Amsterdam

[krandez1]

The reason Radiohead is underappreciated is because most people do not have the depth to their character to relate to what is some of the best music to ever exist. When I hear someone has not heard them, I truly hurt for that person. To live on earth and not get to appreciate this? How sad to miss out...

[barlasha]

If I could be who you wanted....hmm....if I could be...who can judge them...I would give them all times best band...

[DrlFuzZ]

uhhh why was the crowd making fake plastic trees a song to clap to...

[RcRABS]

its all good dont have to try to explain too ppl! its the beauty of surprises! just sad ppl just dont open their ears!

[simonwoulfe]

Thom doesn't hate rock....He's written some of the greatest rock songs of all time......How could he hate rock?

[KubrickKing]

amen

[davestany]

SO GLAD to be a brit again

[VomitAllIdeals]

It didn't work..

[3lement5kater67]

Its funny how Thom hates rock. He likes electronica...weird

[Lildrummerboy50]

1. copy and paste

2. send this to 9 other videos.

3. hold your breath for 10 seconds

4. press refresh twice

3. LOOK AT YOUR BACKGROUND IT WILL BE FREAKY

[muertovivovillano]

WTF ?! lol

[mag666gam]

This truly is one of my favourite pieces of music ever written