Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics

I'm sorry for destroying these moments by posting this post.

It is simply connected to their song called "creep". I'm not sure of what does the song composer looks like. But my brother said that the composer hates surgery. And probably the composer's ugly. So he composed "creep"

now let's go back to this song. Its all about a person he/she loves. But that person have no single taste for him/her. Because that person likes cute, hunky/sexy, handsome/beautiful persons. In other words, "almost perfect"

i dunno if this is the real meaning. But this is what I've experienced in my 4-year love life. Wherein I'm waiting for a girl who broke my silence with a single glance. Ohh yes that eyes. That smile... Anyways, that's what I feel as this music plays. XD

This song reminds me of Revolutionary Road. It actually helps me to interpret the book better. It's easy to dream and be anti-materialistic as an individual. Relationships take a responsibility. It's hard to provide for someone's material needs while still striving for out dreams so we settle for the material and just go through life like a pig in a cage on antibiotics.
You can't be everything to everyone and you can't even be everything to even one person all of the time. I great relationship takes effort. A meaningful life takes effort. The song doesn't attempt give answers, but it stirs up enough emotion to get you thinking.

(Sorry, no spell checker.)

I rarely post about anything online, but the previous posts regarding this song encouraged (and inspired) me. Thank you.

One of the beautiful things about poetry is that it is up to the reader, the listener, to interpret the meaning. The best part of the internet relates to the multitude of opinions from which to educate yourself.

To me, this song sings many ideas. I'm sure (to me) most of them are my own, though as a "just-past-gen-x-er" I'd love to claim them as my own angst-ridden thoughts.

Is it unusual to find yourself in a relationship that involves lies or deceit? If I'm wrong, I'm happy, but I think this is not a feature limited to California, as many posts have suggested.

Regardless of the authors intent, i interpret this song/poem as an encouragement to tell my loved ones that I love them, to do my best in my career without pretending, and to be honest. In general.

My interpretation... In my opinion the same song heard by a different person should have a differentnmening, but be can all learn from each others words

the actual meaning of the song is about a pretend relationship! she's fake he's fake the world around them is pretend so they pretend to be together! thus the ending 'if I could be who you wanted all the time!'

the reference to ours today's society is just the cover of the cake. I really like Fake Plastic Trees because it has the tolstoian universality. The song talks about how the people (including me and you) are tied by materialist thought and the pression of the old day-by-day; she uses her watering can, doesn't she? And meanwhile can't see love or whatever.

I think that the reviewer Anonymous on 10/26/11, is absolutely right about his interpretation. I just finished watch the movie "Bruna surfistinha" that ends with the fake plastic trees, and the conclusion that you get from the movie is precisely what he wrotes. Sentence by sentence

To me this song seems to be about how the world we're living in is becoming increasingly fake. Everything is become plastic, and everything is becoming available to a large portion of the population, but it's not real. What's especially not real is the girl in this song. She chose to not be with whoever is singing, and instead decided to live in her fake plastic world. She has all of these comforts around her but none of them are the real thing. As of now, she is okay with it, but eventually she'll realize how meaningless her life is and she'll miss the opportunity she had to love a real person. At least that's the meaning I get out of it. Songs are really subjective, and you can derive your own personal experience out of them.

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He's complaining about the woman being fake; about the world being fake; about the man buying into fake beauty...then he confesses:

"If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time"

We are doomed --and blessed--as social creatures to need each other, to want each other's approval and acceptance.

So we do things for others sometimes twist and contort and mold ourselves unrecognizably into something far from what is more naturally ourselves.

It's why women are told to find a mate who loves you "just the way you are," the lesson of BRIDGET JONES' DIARY.

This song is musically exquisite. To also have provocative lyrics generating so much contemplation...a bonus.

Late to the Radiohead Bandwagon~
De Neice in San Diego

PS thanks for the great insights. Appreciate them ALL.

Radiohead is a band from the U.K. with permanent residences in the U.K., they wouldn't be writing about the West Coast of America nor California as they haven't fully experienced that sort of lifestyle. You are right about the song being about plastic surgeries and the like, and to mock you I'll transition with BUUUUTTTTTTT...

It's just whimsical disillusionment. Thom has said in an interview that the song was "funny" to him and was just "whatever popped" into his head. The girl is some sort of break up he had or girl he disliked, and talking about how she watered plastic trees (watering plastic...) with a plastic watering can by a plastic woman in a plastic world.

The repetition of plastic is key because it means that the underlying message of the song is that everything is plastic; cheap and imitating of the real thing, but it doesn't actually "taste like the real thing." The man she lived with had a job as a plastic surgeon, one who takes people and makes them plastic. I think in this song plastic tires you and may eventually kill you, the disposability of it and the cheapness of it. Once you become a plastic person in a plastic world, you just start to slowly burn out until nothing is left.

Simply and tldr enough: we are becoming plastic. Plastic is valueless, cheap, and easily disposable. We are becoming valueless, cheap, and disposable.

The end.

Nice try everybody BUT ...

this song is simply about modern day life for Westerners (American west coasters) embodied figuratively in the characterization of a married(?) couple who have crossed into middle-age or later, or maybe still yuppies, and are living a false existence with each other that does not have any authenticity anymore, if it ever did. Just going through the motions while inside he just wants to hit the reset button, perhaps.

It's a Hollywood-California-type town where life is full of facades and bullshit and the desperation to stay youthful while everyone's getting boob-jobs and plastic surgery.

And they are exhausted by it all. All the fake meaningless existence that pretends to be better than the real thing - but gravity always wins ... and then you frickin die.

He however is truly tormented by his cowardice and unwillingness to just turn his back and run from this horse-shit of a life. He made a good living in plastic surgery but what did he really gain?

So the moral of this lyric is ... what kind'a life do you live? Something meaningful and real and grounded or something pretentious, fake, and empty; void of any real life, just fake plastic trees.

Adam and Eve had it made but they decided it wasn't enough. They wanted less than best ... just gimme the bullshit.

So God gave them what they wanted and kicked them out.

And you can have it too !!!

But it will cost you your soul.

Good luck.

PS: This band is awesome.






LMFAO !! the guy above you is on to it

I think the 2nd stanza is about an abortion doctor who feels guilty about it. The 3rd stanza is about a man who is dating a beautiful girl who he doesn't love, but he stays with her anyway. He's also remembering a genuine love affair that didn't last because he wasn't exactly what his ex-grilfriend wanted. The first stanza I'm still thinking about, but it has to do with beind surrounded by fake beauty, like in Las Vegas.

This song has absolutely nothing to do with plastic surgery and people of that nature, its a metaphor for a love that does not exist between them (mainly her to him). Its not rocket science, especially the guy beneath me trying to disprove everyones valid points with the "BUT". Easy, guy.

Nice try everybody BUT ...

this song is simply about modern day life for Westerners (American west coasters) embodied figuratively in the characterization of a married(?) couple who have crossed into middle-age or later, or maybe still yuppies, and are living a false existence with each other that does not have any authenticity anymore, if it ever did. Just going through the motions while inside he just wants to hit the reset button, perhaps.

It's a Hollywood-California-type town where life is full of facades and bullshit and the desperation to stay youthful while everyone's getting boob-jobs and plastic surgery.

And they are exhausted by it all. All the fake meaningless existence that pretends to be better than the real thing - but gravity always wins ... and then you frickin die.

He however is truly tormented by his cowardice and unwillingness to just turn his back and run from this horse-shit of a life. He made a good living in plastic surgery but what did he really gain?

So the moral of this lyric is ... what kind'a life do you live? Something meaningful and real and grounded or something pretentious, fake, and empty; void of any real life, just fake plastic trees.

Adam and Eve had it made but they decided it wasn't enough. They wanted less than best ... just gimme the bullshit.

So God gave them what they wanted and kicked them out.

And you can have it too !!!

But it will cost you your soul.

Good luck.

PS: This band is awesome.

i forgot to tie in all the lyrics but i am sure you can figure it out.

But i thought i'd just simply end with this ...

The fake town full of rubber people, full of rubbber plans exists outside of EDEN, post-banishment, naturally.

You live there now.

They bought the BIG FRIGGIN LIE for their souls.

Okay, I'm done.

Peace guys, get a clue, before it's too late.

"You Do It To Yourself"

PS:

WATCH Radiohead's "JUST" video.