Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead, album: The bends, 1995

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

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her 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 her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time

A great song about the fake plastic world of consumerism. Consuming only for consuming; things, even relations and emotions, are reduced to disposable, single use items. In concrete deserts that are called cities, nature is reduced to plastic plants that are eternal "blossoming" (only as long as we don't get bored with them and throw them away as rubbish for buying another one). Plastic surgery for elders, because we refuse the natural vulnerability of our bodies, even life cycle. The fake plastic immitation of eternal youth is privileged everywhere. But true life is vulnerable, no matter how many plastic covers of youth we wear.

You can hear this song in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wr3wkBLy9o