A floaty, mesmerising track from "Kid A" that makes heavy use of dreamy imagery. Its themes are loneliness, being lost, confusion and water. It was originally titled “Lost at Sea”. The theological meaning of limbo is that of a place outside hell and heaven to which unbaptized infants (or in this case, lost people) and the righteous who died before Christ’s coming were traditionally consigned. The inspiration here derives from "Dante’s Inferno" (a book in which Thom's then-partner, Rachel Owen, was a specialist on).

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