Healing Waters - For Diana Queen of Hearts [Lawrence Gowan]
Written by Lawrence Gowan
Lead Vocals by Lawrence Gowan
Though you rest alone in silence;
We know you'll rise again
Lifted by the ones you touched, who remain
Though we paint a painful picture
I see the other side
Because of you the coldness in us has died
Healing waters, healing waters
Now the Queen of Hearts forever
Takes her place in history
Healing waters, healing waters
From the corners of those sad eyes
Into gutters, into rivers, into seas
Suddenly the years of anger
Had fallen from your face
As you finally shook their icy embrace
You suffered through the wounds they'd given
And cured them from within
And you had survived that world you were in
Healing waters, healing waters
Even hardened hearts surrendered
To your well of mysteries
Healing waters, healing waters
From the corners of your sad eyes
Into gutters, into rivers, into seas
Oh, the ride was rough
And you'd nearly given up
And you swore they'd never break you down again
You'd reclaimed your soul
From those eyes so steely cold
You released the pain...
Now the Queen of Hearts forever
Takes her place in history
Healing waters, healing waters
Oh, Diana
Love Forever,
From your people...
From the rivers...
From the seas...
Interpretation
"Healing Waters" was officially an unreleased song from Gowan, though it was used in its original form in the 1995 Jeff Wincott movie, When the Bullet Hits the Bone. (Wikipedia)
Diana, Princess of Wales, was beloved by the people of Great Britain but also by many others in Europe as well as throughout the English speaking world. Even after her divorce from Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1996, she remained immensely popular until her untimely death a year later, in a 1997 car crash in Paris. The world was in mourning, and her funeral was a global television event viewed by over 2 billion people.
This song was a tribute to the legacy she left and what she had gone through after marrying into the royal family of England in a fairy tale wedding in 1981. Just a few years into their marriage, their incompatibility was clear, and extramarital affairs started the downward spiral. Going through that is hard enough, but to be in the scrutiny of the public eye undoubtedly made it even harder.
She was remembered for her advocacy of important issues, especially HIV/AIDS, but also land mines, cancer, leprosy and other causes.
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