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Fake Plastic Trees

Performed by Radiohead
Written By Thomas Yorke
From the album - The Bends (1995)

Chords: A X 0 2 2 2 0
Asus4 X 0 2 2 3 0
Dmaj9/F# 2 X 0 2 2 0
E6 0 2 2 1 2 0
Dsus2 X X 0 2 3 0
Bm11 X 2 0 2 3 0
Amaj7 X 0 2 1 2 0

A Asus4
Her green plastic watering can
Dmaj9/F# E6
For her fake chinese rubber plant
Dsus2 A Dsus2
In fake pla-ah-stic earth
A Asus4
That she bought from a rubber man
Dmaj9/F# E6
In a town full of rubber plans
Dsus2 A Dsus2
To get ri-i-d of itself

Bm11
It wears her out
A
It wears her out
Bm11
It wears her out
A Asus4
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
Asus4 A
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 Amaj7

Bm11
And if i could be

Who you wanted
A
If I could be

who you wanted
E6 Bm11
A---ll the time
A
All the time
E6
Ah ah ah

Bm11 // Bm11 // A // A E6 // Bm11 // Bm11 // A.


This is the solo from the third verse. It's pretty quiet on the album but you can make it
out OK.
(each dash is a semiquaver (or 16th whatever you call it))

e ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ----------------|
B ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ----------------|
G ---------------- / ---------------- / 2---6---6-6-6-6- / 6-6-6-6-7---9---|
D 2---2----------- / 2--------------- / ---------------- / ----------------|
A 0---0----------- / 0--------------- / ---------------- / ----------------|
E ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ----------------|

e ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------------|
B ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ----------9-9-10-12--|
G 11-11-11--9----- / 2-2-2-4-4-6-6-6- / 6-6-6-6-7-----9- / 9-9-11-11------------|
D ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------------|
A ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------------|
E ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------- / ---------------------|


Sorry for the typing mess up in the solo but you can't fit a double figure number into one
character!
So to clear it up: - There are 5 8th-note 11s in the fifth measure/bar.
- And the notes in the eighth measure are all 8th-notes

This is one of the greatest songs by the greatest bands ever. And rest assured:

THIS TAB IS 100% ACCURATE (this statement is not legally binding)

Obviously if you're playing the rhythm (Thom's) part to this song you'll just have to
out the picking for your damn self cause I couldn't be hassled with it but the chords are
to the song.

This tab is better than the others on this page.

So happy... tabbing.(?)


tabbed by A Friend With Weed

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
 
 
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Armin
Average
#1 by Armin at Mar 17, 1975 at 2:26 PM EST
interestingly enough...the band were in l.a when thom wrote the lyrics to this track... ...i wonder where he got his inspriation from...hehehe
 
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John
Rhythm Player
#2 by John McElyea at Jul 13, 1996 at 12:37 PM EST
This song is utterly and unbelieveably sad and depressing, yet i cant stop listening to it. The last verse, the last line alone should bring a tear to the eye of anyone with a soul.
 
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R.I.P Dimebag D
Professional
#3 by R.I.P Dimebag Darrell at May 31, 2001 at 4:44 AM EST
I'm really blown away by your interpretations. before I logged on here I was imagening his love being fake as the world. and him seing true beauty in her which he didn't feel like deserving.
 
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Rich
Average
#4 by Rich Frazer at Oct 16, 2001 at 2:10 AM EST
ok. im going with the doll theory. anything about a blow up doll brightens my day. and when my day is brightened, the whole world is too. (sarcasm)
 
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Tye
Musical Genius
#5 by Tye williston at Mar 4, 2002 at 11:31 PM EST
This makes me cry! It's about a girl who's completely fake cause she's having to be someone she's not: "If I could be who you wanted all the time..." Awww :( She can't be herself because she feels the world won't accept her that way, so really she has no idnetity. :(
 
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Dylan
Rhythm Player
#6 by Dylan Fitzgerald at Sep 28, 2005 at 1:52 AM EST
i think Thom is analytically describing relationships under false circumstances, ending with the relationship he would currently be in. in the last verse he describes his "fake plastic love". then adds "If i could be who you wanted all the time.." it seems to me he cannot meet her expectations, and in trying to meet them he has essentially sacrificed his sense of self. enough is enough. hopefully, the sex was good, tho!