“And So Is Love” is the second track from Kate Bush’s The Red Shoes. Aside from being the album’s fifth overall single, it ended up becoming the last single Bush would release before her 12 year hiatus. Featuring guitarist Eric Clapton, the track is much more solemn and moody than the previous track and reflects on how two lovers must set each other free “for the sake of love”.

The song also appears in the 1993 film The Line, The Cross and the Curve where it depicts Bush’s character alone in a dark dance studio during a storm, and uses the metaphor of a bird dying to convey the relationship described in the song. It was then released as the official music video.

Bush then went on to do a lip-sync performance on the BBC’s Top of The Pops as her last television appearance before her hiatus. The track was remixed and released again for Kate’s 2011 album, Director’s Cut.