The Healing was the fifth and final track from the second Dusk single Beneath the Silent Skies. It was even on the album for a while - I just uncovered an early tracklisting where it was sandwiched between Perfect Geometry and Bulletproof, followed by a note advising that it should be replaced with The End. Which was undoubtedly a sensible move.
It's strange though, because The Healing is still one of my favourites. It's an unusually upbeat lyric over a decidedly midtempo backing, which is always a great combination. It's even got some lyrics that I'm very proud of, such as "We've turned our home into a war zone" (and also some that I'm less sure of, such as "... to reap the seeds that I've sown", which fortunately wasn't intended as a rhyme for the other line I just mentioned).
Somehow it got lumbered with the label of "another midtempo track", and got missed off the album. In fact, there's a very good reason why it shouldn't have been before Bulletproof on the album: the chords are the same, but backwards. It's a trick we've used a few times, and mostly you'd be none the wiser - but would it have been a good idea to put the two next to each other? Probably not...
Hypernova are a synthpop duo from the UK, and here are some things which they have said:
