9 Chords used in the song: A, Asus4, F#m, Amaj7, Dsus2, D, E7sus4, E7, Bm6
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# This is how you should play the E7sus4 chord in the song
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A Asus4 F#m
Her green plastic watering can
Amaj7 Dsus2
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
A D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
In the fake plastic earth
A Asus4 F#m
That she bought from a rubber man
Amaj7 Dsus2
In a town full of rubber plans
A D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
To get rid of itself
E7sus4 E7 A
It wears her out, it wears her out
E7sus4 E7 A
It wears her out, it wears her out
A Asus4 F#m
She lives with a broken man
Amaj7 Dsus2
A cracked polystyrene man
A D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
Who just crumbles and burns
A Asus4 F#m
He used to do surgery
Amaj7 Dsus2
For girls in the eighties
A D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
But gravity always wins
E7sus4 E7 A
It wears him out, it wears him out
E7sus4 E7 A
It wears him out, it wears
A Asus4 F#m
She looks like the real thing
Amaj7 Dsus2
She tastes like the real thing
A D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
My fake plastic love
A Asus4 F#m
But I can't help the feeling
Dsus2 D
I could blow through the ceiling
A D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
If I just turn and run
E7sus4 E7 A
It wears me out, it wears me out
E7sus4 E7 A
It wears me out, it wears
E7sus4 E7
If I could be who you wanted
A Bm6 E7
If I could be who you wanted all the time
A
All the time...
D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D A
All the time...
E7sus4
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About this song: Fake Plastic Trees
According to singer Thom Yorke, the song was recorded as the band had just been to see Jeff Buckley play a set at The Garage in London and when they got back into the studio, Yorke recorded the vocals in one take and broke down in tears at the end. The song's lyrics are about Canary Wharf in London and about the world of mass marketing and mass consumption. One source of frustration for the band at the time was their US record label, Capitol, who wanted a strong track for American radio to follow the success of their previous hit single, "Creep".