The second part is about her i guess husband or mate who was a plastic surgeon that tried to fix girls in the 80's (or maybe even girls in their 80's) but gravity stops him from completing it fully. Due to her buying or wanting these things it wears her. I think the first part about the women is her problem with buying fake, plastic things in order to fill up something in her life or replicate something she wants/loves/d/ or maybe just her empty life. Such as a fake plastic tree may appear to be alive is not, and will never grow.

In all, I think the message imposes that if you do not live life through love, you live for nothing at all. 'But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the celieng.' He can't help being in love with her yet he knows that she will never leave the man, so he should 'just turn and run.' 'If I could be who you wanted all the time.' He is not content with being her lover and yearns for her committment. 'She looks like the real thing, she tastes like the real thing' suggests that the narrator and woman have shared intimate moments where she has revealed her true self and her love for him, which is in fact, fake and plastic (deceptive) for she returns to a relationship with a man who 'just crumbles and burns.' Her love is confusing and questionable because she does not leave that broken man. She goes through the motions of life but all in vain, for the life that she chooses to live with this man is not real. 'She lives with a broken man' suggests that the woman has a relationship with a man whom she does not love.

The narrator's unwillingness to label her while the man is labled 'broken' and 'cracked' seems to suggest a more personal connection to the woman.

The first part of the song does not define the woman, but reveals that her actions are frivolous and trite.

Fake plastic trees lyrics