In what is sure to be one of the most talked-about alliances of the year, LOU REED & METALLICA's Lulu album will be released by Warner Bros. Records on November 1st in North America (October 31st elsewhere).

A deluxe version of Lulu will be released in a tube-shaped container (13cm x 1.24m), and will include a 2CD digipack package, a large 1.2m x 1.6m poster (with song lyrics), and three photographs by Anton Corbijn (50cm x 50.8cm).

The collaboration recently posted the first complete Lulu song online. Check out 'The View' via YouTube below:

The complete Lulu tracklisting has been revealed and is as follows:

'Brandenburg Gate' (4:19)

'The View' (5:17)

'Pumping Blood' (7:24)

'Mistress Dread' (6:52)

'Iced Honey' (4:36)

'Cheat On Me' (11:26)

'Frustration' (8:33)

'Little Dog' (8:01)

'Dragon' (11:08)

'Junior Dad' (19:28)

The lyrics for 'Dragon' can be found below:

You don't actually care

Love for you is no beginning

You're not really there

Hallucination

I thought you were listening

Hallucination

I thought you were listening

Hallucination

I understand you think you're above it

The adolescent sense of the sky

The feeling of billowing heartbeats

The fingertips run through your hair

They run through your hair

Hallucination

Hallucination

Oh you think you're so special

That there's no law meant for you

You come and go like the goddess you are

We're mere mortals below

Fingertips run through your hair

We are mere mortals below

Are meant to be peons

Are meant to be servants

Are meant to be dismissible objects

One fucks with

One fucks with

Poor pitiful creature

The winner in heartbreak

The winner in caring

The winner in every miniscule method of wearing

Your heart on your sleeve

A red star of idiocy

An idiot's idiocy

My, my caring for you

Caring for you

Do you think we're a book

Some kind of a table

You can rest your feet on when you're able

Red star of idiocy

An idiot's idiocy

My caring for you

Poor pitiful creature

To notice the pining

The self deprivation

The self flagellation of you

Dear worshippers

We do like you regal

We do like you haughty

We do love to look upon your perfect body

The hair on your shoulders

The smell of your armpit

The taste of your vulva and everything on it

We all really love you

And you have no meaning

You don't even see us

You were never caring

You go do what you do

You do it for you

No one exists with you

You're way above caring

Leave a trail upon the wake

That no one ever tries to take

Because waiting for you

Thinking of you

Is another way of dying

Is another way of dying

I'm clawing your chest

'Til your collarbone bleeds

Piercing your nipples 'til I bite them off

I scratch your face and bite your shoulders

Way above caring

Way above caring

And your Kotex jukebox

Your Kotex jukebox

I'm doomed, I'm swearing

Waiting for you

In your high heels and nightie

Your leather dress squeaking

Latex now sweating, waiting for you

In your tincture

Your opium white bathrobe

Your white tiles run red now

Are we both dead now?

The liquid exchange of our heart

The liquid exchange of our heart

Are we both dead now?

You're way above caring

Your heart on your sleeve

A red star of idiocy

An idiot's idiocy

My caring

My caring for you

My caring for you

You're way beyond caring

Your heart on your sleeve

A red star of idiocy

An idiot's idiocy

My caring for you

Oblivious to caring

Oblivious to caring

Oblivious to caring

Leave a trail upon the wake

That no one ever tries to take

Because waiting for you

Because thinking of you

Is another way of dying

You're way above caring

Oblivious to caring

Oblivious to caring

You poor pitiful creature

The mistake of feeling

The one who rejects you is the winner,

It's true

The winner in heartbreak

The winner in caring

The winner in every miniscule method of wearing

Your heart on your sleeve

A red star of idiocy

An idiot's idiocy

Your heart on your fuckin' sleeve

My caring for you

We were meant to be peons

We're meant to be peons

Mere mortals below

Meant to be servants

Meant to be dismissible objects one fucks with

Oh, oh, oh you're so special

No law meant for you

You come and go like the goddess you are

The fingertips run through your hair

A billowing heart beats

Feeling

Feeling

What a glorious feeling

To be so rejected

So rejected

An idiot's idiocy

My caring for you

You think I'm a book or a table

You can rest your fuckin' feet on

When you're able

The taste of your vulva, everything on it

The hair on your shoulders

The smell of your armpit

We do love you, to look upon your perfect body

We love you regal

We love you haughty

Oblivious to caring

Oblivious to caring

Caring

Oh my dear

Oh my dear

Oh my dear

Oblivious to caring

Are we really dead now?

Are we both dead now?

Lulu was co-produced by Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner who has produced albums for Reed, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, and LAURIE ANDERSON, among others and Greg Fidelman. Fidelman also mixed the record.

The idea for these two giants of modern music to work together was born after the 25th anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in New York City in October 2009. Metallica -singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Rob Trujillo - played with Reed on VELVET UNDERGROUND classics, 'Sweet Jane' and 'White Light/White Heat'.

"We knew from then that we were made for each other," Reed says.

After that triumphant performance, Reed suggested they all make a record together. At first they planned to record an album of Reed's older material, what Ulrich describes as "some of Lou's lost jewels - songs that he felt he'd like to give a second spin, and we could do whatever it is we do to some of those songs." That idea "hung in the air for a couple of months." Then, a week or two before that session was to begin, "Lou called up and said, 'Listen, I have this other idea.'"

That idea was to record a series of songs Reed had written for American avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson and German theater group the Berliner Ensemble's production of the Lulu Plays, which premiered in Aprilat theTheatre am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, founded by Bertolt Brecht. The songs are inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind's early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.

"We were very interested in working with Lou," says Hetfield. "I had these giant question marks: What's it going to be like? What's going to happen? So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the Lulu body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into. I could take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for atmosphere. Lars and I sat there with an acoustic and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp 'tallica on it. And that's what we did."
"We had to bring Lulu to life in a sophisticated way, using rock," Reed says. "And the hardest power rock you could come up with would have to be Metallica. They live on that planet. We played together, and I knew it: dream come true. This is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with the best group I could possibly find. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as we possibly could within the realms of reality."
"It's definitely not a Metallica album, or a Lou Reed album," adds Hammett. "It's something else. It's a new animal, a hybrid."

For more details visit Loureedmetallica.com.