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The View by Lou Reed (Ft. Metallica)
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This song is one of the tracks from the collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, known as “Lulu”. This was the first song revealed from the album, and the only single released. A shorter edit of the song was used for the music video, directed by Darren Aronofsky.
The song talks about worshipp...
The View Lyrics
[Verse 1: Lou Reed]
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
[Pre-Chorus: Lou Reed]
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 of someone who actively despises you
For worship of someone who actively despises you!
[Chorus: James Hetfield]
I am the root!
I am the progress!
I'm the aggressor!
I am the tablet!
These ten stories!
[Verse 2: Lou Reed]
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 will offer them, I offer them to you
As servants of the gold that you must give to me!
[Pre-Chorus: Lou Reed]
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!
[Chorus: James Hetfield]
I am the view!
I am the table!
I am the view, I am the table!
I am all this!
I am the root!
The progress!
The aggressor!
I am the table!
I am the ten stories!
I am the table!
I am! I am! I am! I am!
I am!
The View Q&A
Who wrote The View's ?
The View was written by Kirk Hammett & Lars Ulrich & Robert Trujillo & Lou Reed & James Hetfield.
Who produced The View's ?
The View was produced by Hal Willner & Greg Fidelman & Metallica & Lou Reed.