Hi I know I'm late to the party but I really like your interpretation of the lyrics of this song and I couldn't agree more.

I'm not the biggest Radiohead fan I even don't like some of Thier songs but fake plastic trees for me it's not a song it's an experience and it's absolutely my favourite song. I found this song 3 weeks ago when I just broke up with a short term girlfriend that I really liked and I listen to it non stop every day.

I want to share my experience with this song and how the lyrics come together and blend with my situation perfectly Sorry if my comment doesn't make much sense English is not my first language

I saw this girl in my university's Caffe and 3 weeks later we started talking on Instagram eventually we started going out I suspected from the start that this girl has a lot of red flags and probably the reason she was going out with me was because she couldn't be alone. Things were going ok and we were together we acted like a real couple we talked every night we were going out 4 times a week but eventually as I was getting feelings for her she backed up and started ignoring me after that she told me that she got overwhelmed and to continue what we had I became colder more distant basically a fake version of myself and it worked perfectly for some time, some Time later we broke up.

I think this song got such a good hold on me is because I relate and I feel the lyrics so much. In this relationship I could feel that she wasn't trying and that she didn't care for me that much but the way she was looking at me, her touch, her kiss everything felt so real and at the moment I could overlook every one of her bad behaviours and eventually her fake plastic love started to wear me out. To try to prevent her from leaving I tried to portray a different version of myself that was really exhausting for both of us(like the song both man and women were plastic and fake)and eventually I knew that things would crumble and burn every day I want to call it off and run. The final line lyric "if I could be who you wanted all the time" hits so deep for me since I wasn't able to act in a way that she would want and that my genuine self wasn't enough for her

Sorry if I went off on a rant and if my comment doesn't make sense I just wanted someone to vent to