Fake Plastic Trees

Chords

Standard

            A                        E    
VERSE 1:     Her green plastic watering can 
            A/F#                     Amaj7  Dsus2
             For her fake chinese rubber plant
                          A    Dsus2
            In the fake plastic earth
            A                              E                       
             That she bought from a rubber man 
            A/F#                  Amaj7  Dsus2 
             In a town full of rubber plans
                    A       Dsus2 
            To get rid of itself

   
                         Bm                 A
CHORUS 1:   It wears her out   It wears her out
                         Bm                 A
            It wears her out   It wears her out

 
            A                        E 
VERSE 2:     She lives with a broken man 
            A/F#               Amaj7  Dsus2  
             A cracked polystyrene  man 
                       A         Dsus2  
            Who just crumbles and burns 
            A                   E
             He used to do surgery
            A/F#                 Amaj7  D  
             For girls in the eight  -  ies 
                         A    Dsus2 
            But gravity always wins
 
 
                             Bm                A
CHORUS 2:   And it wears him out  It wears him out
                             Bm         A
            And it wears him out  It we-ear  -  err  -  ers


                A                   E
VERSE 3:    She looks like the real thing
            A/F#                   Amaj7 Dsus2
             She tastes like the real thing
                      A    Dsus2    
            My fake plastic love
            A                         E 
             But I can't help the feeling
            A/F#                        Amaj7  Dsus2
             I could blow through the ceil  -  ing 
                   A          Dsus2
            If I just turn and run

 
                            Bm                A
CHORUS 3:   And it wears me out   It wears me out 
                        Bm                     A        
            It wears me out   It wear - err - ers me out 


                            Dsus2
OUTRO:      And if I could be who you wanted
                        A
            If I could be who you wanted 
              Dsus2           A 
            All the time    All the time

            mmmm mmmm mmmm

            Dsus2    A    Dsus2    A (1 strum finish)