Written in 1978, I revived this song twelve years later. Scott Thunes  of Frank Zappa's band did the beautiful bass work.Cassie Webb, my friend an fellow songwriter at MCA Music Publishing, created the haunting vocals. 
in 1991, I asked my friend and fellow MCA songwriter,David Skeet to produce this song. Cassie Webb provides the additional vocals.

From "Virtue Triumphs"

Virtue Triumphs was to be the follow-up to 1991's Upon My Wicked Son. Recorded in the basement studio of his then publisher, this body of work was shelved when Matshusita bought MCA.

Some of these tracks are masters, some just demos. Until recently, these songs sat forgotten in old cassettes.

Virtue Triumphs 

CANNOT NOT

Music and Lyrics by Radiohead
Performed by Paul Roessler

Fake Plastic Trees

Her green plastic watering can for her fake chinese rubber plant
In 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

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery for girls in the '80s
But gravity always wins
And it wore him out

She looked like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help but feeling I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out
And if I could be who you wanted all the time....

CANNOT NOT

Andy Prieboy

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