“Wild Man” is the fourth in the tracklisting and only single from Kate Bush’s 50 Words for Snow, her second album of 2011. In a theme similar to that of the title track of her 1982 album The Dreaming, Kate begins the track by introducing the Wild Man (aka the Yeti) through the many terms he’s known as before describing how mankind can be segregational. In the case of the Yeti, they wish to hunt him down and eliminate him for fear (and misunderstanding) that he will cause harm, similar to how Kate characterised the taking over the land of the Aborigines.

Despite not being an actual pop song, the production on the track lends it closer to the genre than other album tracks like “Lake Tahoe” and “Among Angels”. Compared to their stripped and laid back instrumentation, “Wild Man” features more exotic arrangements including bells and keyboards. Even the length of the radio edit is longer than than that of the conventional 3:30, reaching 4:18 as opposed to the album version’s 7:17.

Much like with “Lake Tahoe” and “Misty”, a minute long segment of the track (from Chorus 2 to Verse 3) was uploaded to YouTube with an accompanying animation. Though promotional CDs were made, there was no physical release on this single ever made and the only format was digital download.