"Fake Plastic Trees" performed live at the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, August 28, 2006. Synched with a better audio source. This song seems to be about the world of mass marketing and mass consumption. According to Thom Yorke, it is about Canary Wharf in London. Thom: "The product of a joke that wasn't really a joke and a very lonely drunken evening and well, a breakdown of sorts."
Lyrics:
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
On girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it 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
It wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out
If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time
Thanks to Creepke, MadMaster, and Relentless