Okay, this is pretty accurate, I took the chords that Gene listed and put them to the lyrics, figuring out the exact changes and the strumming pattern. It sounds almost perfect when I play along to my CD and it works well enough.
Strumming pattern:
e---------------------- (only strum for the D chord) B----------x----------- G----------x----------- D---x-x----x----------- A---x-x----x----------- (for the D chord, don't play this string...) E--don't play----------
(4 of the above strums equals what you should play for each chord when it changes)
(on the D/A/D change play 2 strums D, then 2 strums A, then 4 strums D)
Start strumming A for the intro, come in with the lyrics on the second strum of the pattern)
Her green plastic watering can
For her 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..
It weeeeeaaaars
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 (with more energy)
F#m (with more energy)
D (with more energy, no change this time)
(end on) A
Chords Used (or at least how I play it, there could be a variation though)
A - x02220 -233222 D - xx0232 Bm - x24432
FAKE PLASTIC TREES by Radiohead
Her green plastic wateringcan
For her fake chinese rubberplant
In fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubberman
In a town full of rubberplants
To get rid of itself
It wears her out (4x)
She lives with a broken man A cracked polysterene 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 (4x)
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
