Somehow,I am taking out time from an incredibly loaded work-schedule this week to write this particular post.'Fake Plastic Trees' is the name of a song from the Radiohead album 'In Bends'.If you haven't heard it yet go ahead,listen to it,its well worth your 5 minutes.
Fake Plastic Trees
Ok,so the main reason for this post is finally after months and months of contemplation on this song,finally I guess I figured out the meaning of the song.More on that in just a bit.I never really understood the song all this time,yet it had a magnetic pull on me.The emotions that the band mange to put in the song are really heart-touching .Go ahead and check these out
Fake Plastic Trees at Manchester
Fake Plastic Trees Live @ Glastonbury 2003
If you are short on time,check out the second video from 2:30-3:30
So finally the explanation,here goes:
Fake Plastic Trees
Ok,so the main reason for this post is finally after months and months of contemplation on this song,finally I guess I figured out the meaning of the song.More on that in just a bit.I never really understood the song all this time,yet it had a magnetic pull on me.The emotions that the band mange to put in the song are really heart-touching .Go ahead and check these out
Fake Plastic Trees at Manchester
Fake Plastic Trees Live @ Glastonbury 2003
If you are short on time,check out the second video from 2:30-3:30
So finally the explanation,here goes:
"I always find myself coming back to this song year after year. As we progress from Children to Men the humanity, the genuine pure white emotions we once had erode. The sun shines a little less brighter, the flowers look a little less colorful, our minds become a little less creative. The society of this earth suppresses us as natural beings. Religion, Politics, Economics, Justice, Rank, its all to our detriment. We end up in a job, earning money, mindless of others, living as fake plastic trees."I think there is nothing else left to say.
