She told NME Magazine on 28 July 2012: "With 'Lilies', I was thinking about my grandmother, but I was also inspired by Ryan's Daughter because it's about a woman who's stuck in this Irish village by the sea, and she waits for this soldier who comes over the hill. I used that as a visual inspiration to talk about women waiting for men in a symbolic way, whether it's in war or with someone who's not there emotionally." Natasha sees this song as the manifesto for The Haunted Man:

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