* Intro *
We 'awaken' to see a beautiful vision of space, all encompassing. Stars litter the endless black. One of them, we see, is about to go supernova in the distance, and a blue pulsar 'pulses' about once every second. A yellow-orange galaxy is being 'born', with its arms spiralling out into the vastness of space. All the colors are very vivid and alive, it's very surreal. We are sort of warping past all these phenomena, and see various planets too. It's very beautiful.
Just as the drum enters, the camera spins and reveals we were aboard the "U.S.S Iron Lung". Large red writing is written on the body of the ship, that's how we know what ship it is. It is a crummy looking metallic vessel, a la the "Phoenix" from Star Trek: First Contact.

* faith, your driving me away... *
We glide into the cockpit, to see a man, in his late 20s, sitting and controlling the vessel through the 'final frontier'. He is dressed entirely in black. The camera keeps gliding past him, turning at various points to reveal a variety of buttons, knobs and panels etc. Monitors around say "Code Yellow" in bright yellow writing, on a black background. In fact, it appears we are on a 'dolly', while inside the ship and we are continually moving, much like what the TV show "E.R" is known for using.

Moving through an archway, we are now in a sickbay of sorts. A man, in a white straight jacket, sits directly in the middle of the room, and a large spotlight is fixed on him. This is quite noticeable, as the ship is poorly lit. A single drop of water falls down to his like the Chinese Water Torture procedure. Wires and heart monitors are attached to his body in many different positions.

* my brain says I'm receiving pain... *
Floating over to where these wires are connected, we see a silhouette of a human body laying horizontally, flashing and reacting to the patient's responses. Heart rate, metabolic status and everything else is closely watched, but it seems no one is there to do the watching. He begins to find it difficult to breathe, and is indeed experiencing * a lack of oxygen from my life support... *

* Small Musical Interlude *
We now move through another doorway, to see 5 people playing very strange looking instruments. (e.g. the guitar has 4 handles and things like that..) They are rather calm, and enjoying themselves.

* we're too young to fall asleep, too cynical to speak *
We move closer to the lead singer, but he seems completely oblivious to us being there. He closes his eyes, to show he is passionate about what he's saying and then continues to sing his little song.

Floating back to the bridge of the vessel, we can see out of the view screen that another ship is directly in front of us. It is black, and gleaming from the reflection the star behind it gives off. They sit in space, waiting for us to take the next move. The pilot presses a sequence of buttons on his desk, and we can see he's trying to communicate to someone about this little 'problem'. * we are losing it, can't you tell? *. It appears these two foes have met each other before, but on less than pleasing circumstances..., and it seems that we're the worse for wear...

An older gentleman enters, and he is wearing a more up-market version of the pilot's uniform. It appears he is the one who the pilot was trying to contact.

It seems the crew has become accustom to facing this enemy, and know what they must do. They must * ...scratch an eternal itch... *. More people have entered the bridge, and are sitting and their various posts, ready for action...

We see the enemy move into a stronger position, just as a sub-title comes up saying "Sir, they're powering up their weapons...". It appears the officer at the Conn. has said this, as he mouths the words. "Shields up", is the Captain's response.

Bright green energy is dispersed from the enemy vessel, and it looks quite dangerous. We see it hurtling toward the camera, like the view the pilot of the IRON LUNG would see. The camera then emerges from the ship, to give us an overall view of the scene. Blue plasma is ejected from the "Iron Lung" in retaliation to the other ship's aggression. The two weapons amalgamate in space, and annihilate one another. The "Iron Lung" fires again, quicker than the other vessel, and we see the plasma electrocute the hull briefly.
Merging with the hull again, we see the crew celebrating that they had a direct hit with the enemy ship. They're thinking, * we are grateful for our iron lung * and it comes up on the screen.

* ...when the power runs out, we'll just hum *
We cross to inside the other ship now, to see a species of aliens with elongated heads, and bright orange spots lining their necks and foreheads. They appear to be all male. The doomed occupants see that their ship is disabled, and can't really do much about it. The captain, sitting in a chair raised from the other bridge officers, sits and watches as his crew try pointlessly to save the ship.

We move back inside the "Iron Lung" to the poorly lit room to see the band sing * this, this is our new song... *

* my iron lung... *
The pilot, apparently off duty now, and in civvies, walks into the room where the band is playing and is immediately shocked that they are on-board.
"But we dropped you out of an airlock?" he thinks, and the sub-title says.
"What? How did you get back here?" He gets quite upset, and starts to sweat, as if he's going to be in a lot of trouble for them surviving.
The band says or does nothing but continue to play their music.

* if you're frightened, you can be frightened... *
We see the enemy ship descending into the planets atmosphere. More orange yellow, blood red colors as the ship pass through many layers of clouds, gas, and finally we see an explosion that sort of blends into the atmospheric colors of the planet..

* Outro *
The camera flashes, like we're part of the explosion to reveal Thom Yorke, smiling slyly, and looking mischievous....