“Misty” is the longest and third in the tracklisting of Kate Bush’s second album of 2011, 50 Words for Snow. Despite many confused listeners believing it depicts Kate herself as the subject, the song actually describes the story of 2 fictional characters, including a woman and the snowman whose name gives the track its title, and their sexual encounter on a winter’s night.

Starting off rather bare, like previous tracks on the album, it gradually builds on the jazzy piano at its core. With the seductive energy at the beginning culminating in various sections of orchestral arrangements, it is eventually replaced by the build to desperation towards the end where the woman realises her companion has melted. This image of him becoming nothing but a puddle of water on her bed strengthens the sexual undercurrent, despite it not being elaborated on.

Much like with “Lake Tahoe”, a 2 and a half minute segment of the track (from Verse 4 to Verse 5) was uploaded to YouTube with an accompanying animiation entitled “Mistraldespair”. Despite this, the song was never officially released as a single.