Radiohead is like a deep dive from a tall building. It just never ends. this is Body Snatcher
The car. It was black in colour. Shining under a street light, the car had a blunt front and somehow the headlights were extraordinarily large.
The girl. She had bright eyes. Twinkling even in the street light. She had small breasts. The kind that boys would notice because they are small but attractive. She was wearing a skirt. A floral skirt. Sleeveless.
When she opened the door, the guy behind the wheel did not even look at her. She apologized for being late.
He gunned the engine. And the car was on a roll. She started to relax. And the car started to accelerate. He would take side glances at her. And liked the way the dress fell down showing her plunging neckline.
There was music in the car. There was “bodysnatchers” by radiohead and the blunt sound of the lead guitar.
As the car started to move forward the road became narrower. There were no street lights. And the immense probability of hitting something kept on increasing. The head lights were bright on the road but he drove like he was not looking ahead. As if he was in deep space.
As the song picked up speed, a bright florescent shape came and sat on the blue light of the music player. It took some time to realize it was a butterfly. But it was shining bright. Red, yellow, blue and white.
The girl tried to touch the butterfly and it moved. The guy drove on.
When the girl looked on the right side there was another one.
The butterflies started to flutter around her. She smiled. they started to get attracted to the flowers on her skirt. She looked at her skirt. The flowers had started to look real. Lots of flowers. Small ones. Looking outside. There was a fragrance in the car. Then there were more butterflies. The car was full of butterflies and all attracted to the girl.
The guy kept driving. And it suddenly started to rain. It started with a drop. Then a drizzle and then in a rage. It turned into a storm.
The car picked up speed and so did the storm. At the end of the road there was lightening. It hit the road and went into random waves of light.
Two butterflies came and sat on the girls eyes. And when they fluttered their wings it looked like her eyes had started to blink. They were uneven in shape. A third one sat on her lips.
That did it. it started to send electric currents in her body. She started to move her hands around. No matter what she did, her hands could never reach her face.
She struggled hard. Very hard. She started to bang on the glass. She tried to touch the guy sitting next to her. But she could feel nothing.
There was a problem. The car had started to move up in the air.
She could feel it. and she thought she had lost all her strength. The car was heading straight in to the eye of the storm.
She was getting scared but excited at the same time. It was almost like living and dying at the same time.
She wanted to roll down the window. But her fingers did not move. The car was on a roller coaster ride. the girl had lost control. But realized that there is nothing that she can do about the situation.
Miraculously the car was avoiding the lightening.
There were millions of humming birds who were working hard to straighten the lightening so that it will not hit the car. They wanted the flowers on the girls dress. So they were making sure that the car is not hit. So every time if a wave of lightening entered the path of the car, the birds would dive down and move the strike to another target.
The flowers from the dress started to grow. As if they wanted to reach out of the car. The birds started to swarm the car from outside and the butterflies from inside.
And suddenly there was silence. The girl knew that something was awry. Her hands felt the flowers on her dress which seem to have grown long stems and the butterflies were desperately trying to suck on them. Even those two that were on her eyes had moved from their place. And when she opened her eyes she knew that that car was stuck in some random point in the sky. She looked down and she could see the city.
The city that had taken the form of the sky. The lights in the city twinkled like stars. The guy sitting next to her had suddenly vanished and in front of her she could see a junkyard of cars that had been swept from the road and had all been collected lying over each other.
The girl could see that the flowers in her car were trying to get out for the waiting humming birds. The butterflies were fiercely dancing around the petals.
The girl opened the door of the car and all the humming birds pounced on her. She stood on the bonnet of the car looking at the strange world around her. She did not know what to do. The flowers on her dress had started to grow long stems and the petals kept on growing. There was this ruckus between the birds and the butterflies and nothing was pretty about the whole situation.
Suddenly the girl removed the dress from her shoulders and threw it in the sky. And all the birds and the butterflies dived after the dress as the flowers tried to move up towards the girl.
The girl stood there naked on the bonnet and looked around. The wind played in her hair. And suddenly she saw that there were many girls standing on the top of their respective bonnets. Smiling, laughing and simply waving at her. But nobody talked. All of them were naked. And looking at their spectacular beauty the girl had this urge to grab at least one of them.
Suddenly all of them pounced at her. And she did not know what to do. She took a plunge in the sky. And the other girls followed. She started to experience a feeling that was heady and crazy. Happy and scary.
And the other girls were tailing her. She loved the fall. And for her it was like being rediscovering herself.
And then she saw the stems. The long stems and the petals. And the humming birds piercing their beaks inside the deepness of the petals. The girl grabbed one stem and balanced herself on one of the petals and looked around. The other girls were doing a similar thing. Almost everyone had found a stem and a flower. And almost everyone was trying to get closer to her.
She took a plunge deep towards the city lights. Leaving the flowers and the birds and the girls and the butterflies totally confused. And as everyone started to plunge after her, the stems got entangled and there was a total commotion. At least for the time being, she had a free fall.
Till she hit the terrace of a building.
She stood in the terrace and looked at her own nude body. She felt happy. She looked at her breasts and her tight nipples. And she also felt the coldness in the air.
She liked her nude status but she needed to wear something. She started to climb the stairs of the building. The spiral stairs were never ending. The apartments in the building were empty. The rooms looked infinite.
Suddenly there was that familiar fragrance around here and when she looked up she could see a flower and a humming bird. Together they came towards her. And she wondered where the dress was. That is where the flowers emerged from. But she knew that her skirt had taken another form and there is no point thinking about it. She knew that the dress will haunt her and is probably after her.
She went inside an apartment and jumped to the ground. It took her some time to hit the floor. And as she hit ground, she started to run. She started to run towards a guitar riff.
She turned around an old building and she could hear the riff clearly.
There was a radiohead concert. And the concert was being attended by the butterflies and the humming birds and the big peteled flowers. There were some stray women in the concert.
Somehow the sound of the guitar riff had totally dumbed down the senses and only the girl seemed to know what was happening. She ran through the birds and the butterflies to get closer to the lead singer who had opened the first riff of “Body snatchers”.
The girl grabbed Thorm Yorke and pulled his hand and almost pleaded him to help her. He sort of understood what is happening. He took her hand and they started to run. They ran around the building towards the main road. There was nobody on the empty streets.
They were on full speed. Somehow the crowd might realize that the lead singer has ran away. And they may start a hunt. The girl saw a car in the distance. But she and Yorke started to run towards the car at top speed. But nothing seemed to give in.
As they came near the car the head light flashed like a firefly. The girl could see another girl in a flower skirt getting into the car. She knew that the riff inside the car will belong to the body snatcher.
She stopped there at the spot. And she looked at Thorm Yorke. He looked at her helplessly. She saw the car move from its initial position. The car started to take speed. She could see that there was someone at the drivers seat. She held his hand tightly and moved closer to him. She turned back and saw all the other “her” running towards her.
