Limbo is the third single from Royal Blood’s 2021 album, Typhoons. According to the band on Twitter:
Limbo is about being sick and tired of being sick and tired. Being bored of my own behaviour and the psychological crisis of being utterly lost and helpless to the violent storms of self destruction...
[Verse 1]
Wake up every morning
Almost surprised I survived
Blood on the pillow
Tears in my eyes
Slept in a murder scene last night
[Pre-Chorus]
Nobody move
Nobody gets hurt
Unloop the loop
Can't get out of reverse (Yeah)
[Chorus]
Stuck in limbo (All this time)
Waiting (Up all night)
Waiting (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
I need saving (All this time)
I'm fading (Hold on tight)
Fading (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
Stuck in limbo (All this time)
Waiting (Up all night)
I'm waiting (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
I need saving (All this time)
I'm fading (Hold on tight)
Fading (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
[Verse 2]
Now I've become someone
I don't recognise
I despise
Numb and defeated
Part paralysed
I think I'm starting again, so I roll the dice
[Pre-Chorus]
But I should stop and take my own advice
It's no wonder
I found myself lost ignoring all the signs
Fading
[Chorus]
Stuck in limbo (All this time)
Waiting (Up all night)
Waiting (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
I need saving (All this time)
I'm fading (Hold on tight)
Fading (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
Stuck in limbo (All this time)
Waiting (Up all night)
I'm waiting (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
I need saving (All this time)
I'm fading (Hold on tight)
Fading (Stuck inside in limbo, limbo)
[Bridge]
Somebody calm me down
Wake me up slow
Don't leave me too late
Don't wait
Till I'm stuck in limbo
Limbo
Somebody calm me down
Wake me up slow
Don't leave me too late
Don't wait
Until my body is cold
And I'm stuck in limbo
Till my body is cold
My body is cold
My body is cold
Till my body is cold
Yeah, my body is cold
And I'm stuck in limbo
Stuck in limbo
Stuck in limbo
Yeah, I'm stuck in limbo
[Instrumental Outro]
Limbo was written by Mike Kerr & Ben Thatcher.
Limbo was produced by Royal Blood.
Royal Blood released Limbo on Thu Mar 25 2021.
[The track is] without a doubt the most ambitious and wildest we have allowed ourselves to be. We can’t wait to invite you this far down the rabbit hole with us.
— via NME