Views Title Field from NID

Hello,
What I want to achieve is pretty much common but I am missing out something silly that I cant get what I needed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I wanted to have a node->title field in my views page and link it to the respective node page. I can add that field easily to my views fields section. But the problem is the generated html is
<a href='someurl'>TITLE</a>

while I want it something like
<h2><a href='someurl'>TITLE</a></h2>

Note the addition h2 above.

If I use the rewrite output option in views to override the default output of Title field, I get
<a href='someurl'><h2>TITLE</h2></a>

Note h2 element is inside <a> tag. which is also not what I needed. I do not want the block level element to be inside an inline element.

so my latest approach is that to have a NID field in views (instead of a title field) and use a custom views template file for views-view-field--nid.tpl.php.

$nid = $output;
$node = node_load($nid);
$node_url = drupal_get_path_alias('node/' . $nid);
$node_title = '<a href="' . $node_url . '">' . $node->title . '</a>';
print '<h2>' . $node_title . '</h2>';

Above is my code in views-view-field--nid.tpl.php and the output is <h2><a href='someurl'>TITLE</a></h2> as I expected. But then there is now a new problem. I get a <span> tag surrounding my <h2>

So now question at last is:

How do I tell Views that my NID field is a block level field and not a inline field?

Does this make sense or am I making something silly very complicated?

thanks,
neokrish