Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (with lyrics)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Artist : Radiohead
Title : Fake Plastic Trees
Album : The Bends
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
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
And it wears him out
It wears him out
It wears him out
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
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
#radiohead #fakeplastictrees #thebends
My son is going through a tough time . Leaving drugs behind and loves a person who is still using . Send prayers his way . Please . He counts the days he is clean . Plays the guitar and sings . He copes w music . Pray for my kid . 😢
God is gonna help you
I will keep the both of you in my prayers because what he suffers from it not only affects him but it affects his family as well, I can empathize and sympathize with him because I am him I have almost two years clean uninterrupted. Even though every day is A battle I’m fighting for my life, some days are better than others, my worst day being clean doesn’t come anywhere near my best day when I was out there using. I am so grateful to be clean and experiencing this new way of life. Tell your Son to hang in there it do get better for people like us. I’m living proof. When I read your comment it touched me instantaneously, this song reminds me that the life I use to live was fake and the life I live today is real, it feels good to be here. Even though I don’t know you or your Family, much Love And Respect, and may peace and joy be A constant in y’all lives.
Hi. You wrote this message 11 months ago. Hope you are doing fine
Irene, may your son stop struggling with those issues and can have a long lasting healthy life. In the name of the Father. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Lifiting you and your family up in prayer.....
Radiohead hits different when you have a crush that has no idea who you are and you can't get to know them
Radiohead hits different and will in many life's places as well; You just have to find them places man.
creepy
@@drunkviggo7263 normal for a radiohead fan
thx
I can tell you have moved many to better themselves and their lives with the sheer empathetic sincerity in your words
Truly the people of this world are worth so much if this is the thing people say to each other
Or when that crush is gay💀
Here's my interpretation of the song:
Verse 1: Fake currency created by people to buy a fake materialistic possession, she bought from a fake man who's running after materialistic things. Initially all this makes her wears her out, makes her really sad.
Verse 2 : Her lover/husband is also a materialistic person who runs after worldly possessions. She also has to pretend to be fake and live with him, as she cannot run away from this life. As gravity always wins. This makes Thom sad, frustrated and wears him out.
Verse 3 : In his head he imagined her as a real person in the world full of fake plastic people, ultimately realising she's just the same now. She's given in to being fake, but he cannot help with his feelings of love for her and he wishes he could get rid of those feelings. This feeling wears him out.
Outro: He wishes if he could also be as materialistic/shallow as everyone around him, which he acted to be sometimes, but he knew he wasn't that person and couldn't be that all the time. If only he was a fake and shallow person as everyone around him, then he'd be someone she wanted.
Boil it down to a life surrounded with fakeness, and it wear you out until you slowly succumb and become fake yourself. Love and happiness is sold to you the same way, and by the same people who sell you Coca Cola and Big Macs.
This is also my interpretation....I had a girl who left her superficial bf cause I gave her a glimpse of something real...only for her to break my heart later and give into the same superficial nature that made her unhappy because I couldn't give her everything she wanted...this song opens up that deep cut every time I hear it, but also reminds me that I am not that person even if a girl I loved is
i think ur close but its really just about how everything mainstream in this world is fake.. the news, the shows, the culture.. people try their whole lives to catch up with the jonses... it will wear you out..and its all meant to.. designed to keep u on that rat wheel chasing the cheese.. gravity always wins because no matter how many surgeries a person gets we all age and it becomes more and more obvious as time goes on... the end verses speak for themselves.. but like he says.. i could blow through the ceiling so i can just turn and run and get the hell out of this fake plastic world
I think it's about how you can drain yourself from trying to be perfect all the time.
My first love in high school dedicated this song to me, said it reminded him of me/us. He broke my heart not long after he told me about this song. For the longest time I couldn't hear this song without crying. Now I sit here married to the absolute love of my life with 2 teenage sons listening to it and I smile. It reminds of another time that while it was difficult, it was a still a great time. I was 16yo, had a driver's license, had a group of friends who I loved and who loved me dearly, had wonderful loving parents (who were alive then) and my future was wide open. This is why I love music.
ETA- I just found out in December 2022 that my first love/the guy who told me about this song died in November 2021. He was found naked and alone in the middle of the road unconscious and spent 1 month in a coma and then died. His name was Sean David Roper and he didn't deserve to die like that. RIP my dear friend. We actually ended up getting back in touch as adults and were great friends like we were in high school before we dated. My husband liked him too. He was taken too soon and deserved so much better than what he got.
Wow your comment had me very emotional 🌹❤️
Keep high you've inspired me cause I'm struggling atm 🙏
@@afcforeva14 tho I may weep tonight, joy comes in the morning. Turn the page to a better life.
Beautiful story ❤️❤️ Glad
You found the one! God bless you and your family
@@jeanasmith9146 thank you I'm sorry for youve been through anything I'm here to talk 🙏
Why this song hurts so much? This song is well made, it's a Masterpiece.
I always imagine a girl in her apartment watering her plants and she's living with her boyfriend. She's trying not to cry and just smile for him.
And she's thinking this 3:53
You can only describe this song in one word ‘masterpiece’
Up there with the Waterboys ‘whole of the moon’ and the Verve’s ‘drugs don’t work’
Thank you for this. I have played this song for years and always forget the lyrics. This helps immensely with remembering them since i'm visual and need to actually see the words. Thank you
Gravity definitely always wins..
Just ask Tits Maggee
As I sit here reflecting on my marriage during our new separation phase, this song hits hard.
Me too... getting divorced. She cheated and I never did. Gave her all I had. Sometimes it just isn't enough
@clayefferson well Clay, i hope you can lift yourself up, and it doesn't wear you out. Peace love and respect to yourself our broken plastic soldier 🫡
I couldn't understand the lyrics. Now I have tears in my eyes and love the song even more. Ty for posting.
I also forgot the lyrics.....banging tune and Lyrics. It's made me very emotional today. Love it ♥
"if I could be
who you wanted
all the time"
🥺
Truly it's tiring to seek approval and validation from others. Conformity can sometimes be a poison.
Absolute eargasam.
Thankyou.. Please look back on our time and trust i wasnt fake at all. You were my little soul mate... In my fake plastic world
I feel like these lyrics are simultaneously obscure yet incredibly familiar on an archetypal, almost primal level, kinda like a David Lynch movie. Like I couldn't tell you the specific meaning of each line, but I can tell you the overall impression and "story" the song seems to tell of world-weariness and endless daydreaming to make modern life tolerable...
Radiohead was the soundtrack for the end of my doomed marriage, I just gravitated to it. My fake plastic love, he never loved me, my sub conscious showed me through the music like magic.
16,First time listening this.
I didn't know this song existed....
Probably the best alternative rock music ever made
I would add a verse about plastic branches
Great song, subd. Thanks for the lyrics ❤🌹
Gravity always wins hits different
I used to hang out with the girl I was in love with, one day she confessed me that she liked me back,
We started to know each other with that context, we kissed, we met each others life and things we liked.
I asked if she wanted to be my girlfriend and she said yes, I felt so lucky about it, and today, like a month and a little more later… she broke up with me, it hurts… but I’ll be fine
This happened to me as well.
@@themanthemyththelegend9498
Thanks for reading my story,
Let’s both be strong
That sucks, hope it goes better next time
I would sing this to my 5 year old daughter. Man I’m getting old.
My favorite song
Always loved this
Hits me every time , when I'm alone I'm tired to make things better!!
everytime i listen to this song, all the the negative emotions that i feel right now is surging, im so stressed and depressed, i wish i could turn back time... i fcking hate myself so much!
It is supposed to help you heal, try and look for the good things, and if you have been trying already, for a long time, nothing ever ever comes easy ❤️
Every time I hear this song, I can't help but hear the lyrics " in a town full of Robert Plants."
Though your music library is awesome 🔥❤️ I would like to hear porcupine tree 🙂 too
This song is from back when people actually had genuine, deep feelings
Love this song \M/
Awesome
Amazing song
It hurts to know that my crush is listening to this song and thinking of someone else and im here listening it for him😭😞
Aww man that sucks
Current mood: Thom’s screams ❤️🔥
Love this
Nice song
It wears her out
thank you.
i like to pair this with duran duran's electric barberalla lol
I love this..♡
Yo soy una mujer depresiva, está canción me fascina pero yo pienso cosas negativas ,tengo miedo a morir ,no quiero y pensar eso me da pánico como vamos a morir donde quedare donde quedará mi alma que será, cuanto dolor más llegare a experimentar 🌹🤍💕🌺
A mi me pasa lo mismo, me da mucha lastima por eso, te abrazo
If I could be who you wanted..
Wish she knew man
A green plastic watering can for a fake chinese rubber plant
In a 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
Pain
So cool
Meanwhile, the tree 🍃
"crumbies"
To may , yeah you broke me really hard , so damn destroyed even i would brought it till the end of me
Nice
Song is always beautiful .. can someone please tell the meaning
It's a melancholic commentary on the insincerity of modern society, first using the metaphor of fake plastic plants and trees, then that of a plastic surgeon who creates fake but very temporary beauty struggling to find meaning in his life(he just crumbles and burns, like the polystyrene he is described as) and then finally by examining the protagonist's relationship, which he considers to not be genuine and sincere despite appearing to be at first glance-"she looks like the real thing, tastes like the real thing".
It concludes with the protagonist yearning to escape to find sincerity and a genuine, unapologetic existence somewhere else, recognizing that he is fundamentally insincere as well-the song closes with him wishing that he could genuinely be what his girlfriend/SO thinks he is and wants him to be, implying that she wouldn't love him for his weaknesses, were she aware of them.
It comments on a very common tragedy, that of the romantic dilemma of the male: be artificially consistently strong and masculine and be adored for something you aren't, or show weakness and be scorned. As Chris Rock says, the only things that are loved unconditionally are pets, women, and children. Men are almost always only ever loved conditionally predicated on what they can provide in terms of material possessions and safety, which of course isn't really love. That doesn't mean men don't want to be loved unconditionally and sincerely though-of course they do-and therein lies the melancholy of the song.
@@jadedandbitter though the song is so sad, I'm completely drawn into it. Yes, the world is so filled with pretentions and almost ecerybody is seeking validation from others. It's quite tiring, annoying, mundane and even banal that you want to shut yourself out of these things and live life how you ought to live it according to your terms and means. INFP here.
@@jadedandbitter This is an excellent write-up, thank you for sharing
What does it mean to you? No one can tell you the meaning
I'm 49, male. If I had the money I would have work done on my face. Even if it was obvious that I had it done I wouldn't care. This younger generation judges so much by looks and there's a lot of young girls out there who will date older guys. It's not that I want younger girls in particular but they just seem to be the ones who are around. The ones who are looking for somebody. plus I want don't want to look old and if I look old at least want to look like I tried to not look old. This is the most superficial thought or thing that I've ever said. I realize that. Maybe it was the song or maybe it was Axl Rose. His work didn't seem to help much, although I love axl and I don't care how he looks. He's 60 for God's sakes. I'm the crumpled man who he talks about sucking. Is that the doctor from the 80s he refers to? I don't even like this band very much. But this song would be in my top hundred favorite songs ever.
Song name pliss..
I'm here because I am curious.
❤️
Theres a re real small part of me that insists it said it wears him out. 🏴☠
This song is a magnum opus
i wanna die 2 this
Don't be plastic ya'Lloyd lolx utility serious fo😢
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Inspiring to write better songs
fake
And if I could be who you wanted. If I could be who you wanted. All the time. All the time. I love how this song ends!
At the very end he says "i would"
@@TheSchmuck2 Yes. 👍🏻
This part is so sad for me
Perfect isn't it?
This hits hard when you're thinking of someone.
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Radiohead hits different when you become completely hopeless.
Yes it does. I have nothing left to live for.
@@johnhamilton5488 You are loved. Reach out if needed.
Be well people of the earth. Let Radiohead take away your feels for a bit and then be better for it ❤
My interpretation of the song is that, Everyone around him feels fake\plastic. The guys she likes seem fake to him. She feels the only real person in his head, yet he realises she's as fake as the rest of the people. But he cannot help with the feelings he has for her and if only he could get rid of those feelings. He wishes he was a fake plasic tree just like everyone and be who she wanted, all the time. This feeling wears him out.
My perception of the song
Everyone is submitting to the system, destroying the world with plastic.
Plastic watering can, for a plastic plant, in a fake plastic world.
It’s about a corporatist/capitalist system. Not people.
And if you actually listened to radioheads music deeper you would realize so, especially because of no surprises.
And he feels he could do better if he leaves which is sad because he probably does love that girl
No shit sherlock
I haven’t heard this song in years man. It’s good to hear it again
I really love the song whenever i listen, makes feel extraordinary 🎸🎹🥁🎧🎤🎼🎶🎵
Are you japanese?.
this song is exceptional and wonderful ... it makes me feel melancholy about something ... I have no friends, I suffer from bullying; but the music manages to make me vent
if you like Radiohead ... you might like plastic tree (jrock) ♥️
You are not alone. I am your friend.
Real
Sending Love 💗 Please get out and make some friends. There's got to be some wonderful things about you that needs to be shared. I know cause your listening to this beautiful music. My life-line always...Music 💖 Be kind to you !!
Everything happens for a reason, the darkness you’re going through right now is setting you up for a bright sunny day! You are loved, you will be loved, you will find your place on this earth, God bless you🤍
this is a song that can be interpreted as feeling disconnected, empty, and artificial in a world that often values superficiality and materialism. The "fake plastic trees" in the song can be seen as symbols of things that appear perfect and beautiful on the surface but lack genuine substance and meaning.
The lyrics suggest a sense of disillusionment and a desire for something real and authentic in a world that can feel phony and manufactured. It's a song that conveys a sense of longing for authenticity and a rejection of the superficial, plastic aspects of life.
In simple terms, the song is about feeling out of place in a world that sometimes seems insincere and shallow, and yearning for something more genuine and meaningful.
Man I'm on moment where substantially I am down and absolutely everything around me doesn't has taste more...So right now I understand this lyrics.
yeah and i cant have the real thing
It wears us out
It wears us out
That background effect at 1:45 (synth possibly mixed with strings) is heavenly. lifts this song to greatness.
First time to hear this song this midnight 12/31/2021. Reality bites.
Oof, that 3rd verse. So much buildup from the rest of the song that just explodes out in that verse. It makes me emotional every time!
A beautiful song with such unique yet relevant lyrics gotta give RH points for originality!
A hauntingly beautiful voice and song 🌹❤️🎶🌹❤️🎶
It remind of girl I had crush while I was in School it's been 8 year I never see her but my love for her is same I wish to write like you someday.
عندما استمعت لأول مرة إلى أغنية "Fake Plastic Trees" لفرقة Radiohead، شعرت وكأنها تعبر تمامًا عن تجربتي الشخصية في الشعور بالاغتراب والحزن. الكلمات المؤثرة والموسيقى الحزينة سحبتني إلى عالم مليء بالزيف والتصنع، تمامًا كما أشعر أحيانًا في حياتي اليومية. الأغنية جعلتني أدرك كيف أن الأشياء والأشخاص من حولي قد يفقدون قيمتهم الحقيقية في مجتمع مادي. كانت تجربة استماعي لهذه الأغنية بمثابة لحظة تأمل عميقة، جعلتني أعيد التفكير في ما يهمني حقًا في الحياة وما يجعلها ذات قيمة.
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❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
عقيقه
غير ممتع
خايسه
I remember seeing this song on his ex's profile. Now that he's gone,(he left me so easily after making me feel so loved and wanted) I understood everything. I can now feel every word in this song.
When lyrics hit you later in life differently driving down the road on a random Tuesday. Watch out kids- you don’t even see it coming, you don’t see it hit you, you don’t realize you’ve been hit, then you’re driving along and holy crap-
After so many years I still love this song 18 going on 50
radioheads songs are the only reason ill stay alive ❤️🤟
Today, me and my very good friend aren't friends any more sadly, so I always go to this song as therapy for me, I rlly don't know why we split, all I did was give her a warning, and I am a life long sufferer of depression and suicidal thoughts, and like I said, this song is my therapist
Good to know. Hope you are doing well now.
this song may help at times, as it does me. we listen to know we are not alone. but do get actual therapy, dude. i am also saying this to myself. wish you well.
Thom Yorke actually cried when they finished the first three recording of this song. It only shows this song is made for tearshedding.
This song reminds of a time I talked to a girl whom i thought was gonna be my girlfriend
Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
One if the reasons why I put the Bends above OK computer.
a man who just CRUMBIES and burns 😆
This is a five minutes novel, exceptional indeed.
What a masterpiece...
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love😢
This song hits different when im sometimes feel special and sometimes like im fool, especially when you have a crush on someone.
One of the greatest songs written, ever. Period. Not a soul alive can hear this tune and NOT think of that ONE PERSON.
Fake people, gravity always wins
Oh, to cross paths with someone who isn't fake
I don't think time's on my side
This song is about two people unhappy in life AND their marriage
I would say "blow through the ceiling" is a self harm reference
The song as a whole says, "don't complain, it's everyone and it's how life is."
It brings tears every time. The song is a quiet cry for help from all parties mentioned."
It is clearly a Bread rip-off, but with pent up regret and sadness (anger turned inward) shadow ban that, UA-cam.
didn't take it that way "blow through the ceiling" like as in break the glass ceiling
"If I just turn and run" meaning the person in the relationship is holding him back and he could be happy and successful if just walked away from the relationship.
Could anyone tell me the meaning of this song pls
Radiohead hits different when your wife dies because of mental illness...