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)
A F#m
Her green plastic watering can
D
For her fake chinese rubber plant
A D
In the fake plastic earth
A F#m
That she bought from a rubber man
D
In a town full of rubber plans
A D
To get rid of itself
Bm
It wears her out..
A
It wears her out..
Bm
It wears her out..
A
It wears her out
A F#m
She lives with a broken man
D
A cracked polystyrene man
A D
Who just crumbles and burns
A F#m
He used to do surgery
D
For girls in the eighties
A D
But gravity always wins
Bm
And it wears him out..
A
It wears him out..
Bm
It wears him out..
A
It weeeeeaaaars
A F#m
She looks like the real thing
D
She tastes like the real thing
A D
My fake plastic love
A F#m
But I can't help the feeling
D
I could blow through the ceiling
A D
If I just turn and run
Bm
And it wears me out
A
It wears me out
Bm
It wears me out
A
It wears me out
Bm
And if I could be who you wanted
A
If I could be who you wanted
Bm
All the time..
A
All the time..
A (with more energy)
F#m (with more energy)
D (with more energy, no change this time)
(end on) A