The New Pledge of Allegiance

I've been haunted and fixated on Radiohead's song The Tourist for the last 27 1/2 hours.
I must embarrassingly admit that on my many, many, many listens of OK COMPUTER,
I somehow overlooked the beauty and importance of this marvelous closing track.

Having been quickly engrossed in Radiohead's entire discography in a seemingly short period of time (about five months) I suppose at the time I felt its delicate pop structure and lullaby-like chorus didn't stand up to parting gifts like Motion Picture Soundtrack, Street Spirit (Fade Out), and A Wolf at the Door.

But wow, can I ever say I’ve had a change of heart!
This song should be sung by skittish school children in the dilapidated classrooms of our
bullet-riddled public schools each morning to a red flag donning 2001's weeping amnesiac caricature.

The song is touching, with the nervous frenzy of Thom Yorke as he pleads to the driver
"Hey man, slow down, slow down!" Absolutely beautiful and... frightening.

It is interesting to note also, and I'm almost certain I'm not the first to have noticed this...
But the last track ties into the first creating a sort of enigmatic full circle in regards to the plot.

In OK COMPUTER's first track Airbag Yorke croons
"In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived, an airbag saved my life"
and then 10 tracks later we arrive at The Tourist,
where the unspecified narrator is seemingly endangered by a reckless driver.

Is this a separate event? Is the main character terrified because of the harrowing accident he experienced in the LP's opening? Or are we experiencing a paradox in the story?
Whatever the answer, this song rocks, OK COMPUTER rocks, and by fucking god
Radiohead rocks!