Song: Fake Plastic Trees
Band: Radiohead
Album: The Bends (1995)
Tabbed by: Kyle Cameron (jjcamero@chat.carleton.ca) 

This is a really pretty song, to be played slowly with emphasis
on the base notes of each chord.  Listen to the recording for the strumming.
 
CHORDS:
A           (x02220)
A/F#        (2x0220) ***It sounds really nice if you hit the  
E           (022100)    low E string once in sort of a walkup 
Dsus2       (xx0230)    each time you switch from A to A/F#.  
Dsus2/B     (x20230)    (A----low E-A/F#---)
 
 
(Quietly.  No intro, just go straight into Verse Progression:)
A                        A/F#
Her green plastic wateringcan
                    E    Dsus2
For her fake chinese rubber plant
            A    Dsus2
In the fake plastic earth
A                         A/F#
That she bought from a rubber man
                E     Dsus2
In a town full of rubber bands
      A    Dsus2
To get rid of istelf
 
(Chorus:)
            Dsus2/B
It wears her out
            A
It wears her out
            Dsus2/B
It wears her out
            A
It wears her out
 
(Medium Volume.  Verse Progression)
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
 
(Quiet, then build volume on "It wears....."  Chorus progression)
And it wears him out, It wears him out
It wears him out,  It wears.... 
 
(Loud.  Verse)
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
 
(Really Quiet.  Chorus progression)
And it wears me out, It wears me out (x2)
And if I could be...who you wanted,
If I could be...who you wanted.
All the time,
All the time...
 
***Then, for the ending, bring the volume up, and play
   Dsus2/B, A, Dsus2/B, and on the final A.


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Fixed on August 12, 2005
by Lucas
'Enjoy the Corky'
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