Listen: To Loutallica’s The View

So the first song is here and, well, it’s kind of not that bad. Judge for yourself by checking out this soundcloud of The View, a track from Lulu.

The View by Lou Reed & Metallica

Words are still failing us but luckily they aren’t failing Lou Reed as the following reveals:

From the album Lulu due out October 31, 2011 (Worldwide) & November 1, 2011 (North America)

I am a chorus of the voices

That gather up the magnets

Set before me

I attract you and repel you

A science of the heart

And blood and meaning

The coldness of most beauties

Is a challenge that our youth

Must quickly conquer

There is no time for guilt

Or second guessing, second guessing

Based on feeling

I am the truth, the beauty

That causes you to cross

Your sacred boundaries

I have no morals

Some think me cheap

And someone who despises

The normalcy of heartbreak

The purity of love

But I worship the young

And just formed angel

Who sits upon the pin of lust

Everything else

Bores me

I want to see your suicide

I want to see you give it up

Your life of reason

I want you on the floor

And in a coffin your soul shaking

I want to have you doubting

Every meaning you’ve amassed

Like a fortune

Oh throw it away

For worship someone

Who actively despises you

For worship someone

Who actively despises you

I am the root

I am the progress

I’m the aggressor

I am the tablet

These ten stories

Worship

Worship

Pain and evil have their place

Sitting here beside me

I offer them to you as servants

Of the gold that you must give

Pain and evil have their place

Sitting here beside me

And i’ll offer them, I offer them to you

As servants of the gold

That you must give to me

I want to see your suicide

I want to see you give it up, give it up

Your your life of reason

I want to see you on the floor

And in a coffin, soul shaking

Soul shaking

I want to have you doubting

Every meaning you’ve amassed

Like a fortune, like a fortune

Throw it away

For worship of someone who actively despises you

Who actively despises you

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