

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 She lives with a broken man A cracked polystyrene man Who just crumbles and burns He used to do surgery For girls in the 80's 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
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 She lives with a broken man A cracked polystyrene man Who just crumbles and burns He used to do surgery For girls in the 80's 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
"Fake Plastic Trees" foi gravada nos estúdios RAK, em Londres, sob a produção de John Leckie, e a banda descartou uma versão inicial que consideraram “pomposa e bombástica”.
A versão final da canção recebeu forte influência do cantor‑compositor americano Jeff Buckley, que inspirou o arranjo final adotado pela banda.
O single alcançou o top 50 nas paradas de singles do Reino Unido, da Nova Zelândia, do US Modern Rock Tracks e da chart canadense de Rock/Alternative.
Em 2003, a revista Rolling Stone posicionou "Fake Plastic Trees" no número 385 da lista “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
Pitchfork reconheceu a música como influência marcante para artistas pós‑Britpop, citando bandas como Coldplay e Travis como exemplos.
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