“Lily” is the sixth track from Kate Bush’s The Red Shoes. It is named after noted spiritual healer Lily Cornford, whom Bush met and befriended in London in the 1990s. Lily’s main practice as a healer was mental colour therapy, a non-invasive holistic treatment for a variety of physical, mental, emotional or spiritual issues.

The song itself also appears in Bush’s 1993 film The Line, The Cross and the Curve. Depicting Bush’s character pleading to Lily for help to break free from the spell of the Red Shoes, this section of film serves as the official music video, though the song was never released as a single in any form.

Bush later went onto remix and rerelease the track for her first album of 2011, Director’s Cut before using this version of the track to open Act One of her 2014 Before the Dawn residency