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Helmet – Blacktop (1990) | Track profile | Dork

Tracks
Helmet
Strap It On
Blacktop

TRACK

Blacktop

Release date: 1st March 1990

From Strap It On

About This Track

"Blacktop" is a track by Helmet, from the album Strap It On, released 1st March 1990. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Helmet

Helmet

Lyrics

Blacktop

[Verse 1]

Your self-control might be a muscle spasm

New direction isn't everlasting though

Grope for straws you've got to plan this week

Then the crutch dissolves when she’s just too sweet

[Verse 2]

Ration of blacktop on the slope of nowhere

Came out to greet the unresponsive stare

Turn green with envy over something you missed

You didn't know what when you fell down in it

[Refrain]

Walk on top and you run beneath

The blacktop spreads

The blacktop speeds

[Guitar Solo]

[Refrain]

Walk on top and you run beneath

The blacktop spreads

The blacktop speeds

Walk on top and you run beneath

The blacktop spreads, blacktop

The blacktop speeds

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Track details

From Strap It On

1990

Album

Release year

1990

—FBLA

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—Blacktop

—Impressionable

Expect the World

Drunk in the Afternoon

Life or Death (Slow)

Dead to the World

See You Dead [Live]

Distracted (live)

Anything and Everything

And Your Bird Can Sing

Welcome to Algiers

Unsung (Live in Chicago)

Almost Out of Sight

Swallowing Everything

On Your Way Down

Everybody Loves You

Crashing Foreign Cars

Speak and Spell

Throwing Punches

(High) Visibility

Diet Aftertaste

Broadcast Emotion

It's Easy to Get Bored

Driving Nowhere

Exactly What You Wanted

Born Annoying (1993)

Shirley MacLaine

Symptom of the Universe

Wilma's Rainbow

The Silver Hawaiian

Biscuits for Smut

Biscuits for Smut (Mutt Mix)

Biscuits for Smut (Pooch Mix)

Milktoast / Milquetoast

Turned Out (live)

Judgment Night: Another Body Murdered

Just Another Victim (Judgement Night)

You Borrowed (live)

Just Another Victim

In the Meantime

Unsung (Peel Session 1991)

MurderStrap It On

RepetitionStrap It On

SinatraStrap It On

DistractedStrap It On

Bad MoodStrap It On

FBLAStrap It On

Make RoomStrap It On

ImpressionableStrap It On

RudeStrap It On

Helmet — Die Alone

Helmet — Look Alive

Helmet — Bad News

Helmet — Stuck

Helmet — See You Dead [Live]

Helmet — FBLA (live)

Helmet — Army of Me

Helmet — Distracted (live)

Helmet — 2013 Invasion

Helmet — Anything and Everything

Helmet — White City

Helmet — Morphing

Helmet — She's Lost

Helmet — Miserable

Helmet — So Long

Helmet — LA Water

Helmet — And Your Bird Can Sing

Helmet — Welcome to Algiers

Helmet — In Person

Helmet — Seeing Eye Dog

Helmet — Unsung (Live in Chicago)

Helmet — Monochrome

Helmet — Brand New

Helmet — Money Shot

Helmet — Almost Out of Sight

Helmet — Swallowing Everything

Helmet — Requiem

Helmet — On Your Way Down

Helmet — Goodbye

Helmet — Howl

Helmet — Bury Me

Helmet — Gone

Helmet — Black Light

Helmet — Just Like Me

Helmet — Everybody Loves You

Helmet — Crashing Foreign Cars

Helmet — Drug Lord

Helmet — Enemies

Helmet — Last Breath

Helmet — Smart

Helmet — Speak and Spell

Helmet — Surgery

Helmet — Throwing Punches

Helmet — See You Dead

Helmet — Motorbreath

Helmet — Unwound

Helmet — Like I Care

Helmet — Crisis King

Helmet — Pure

Helmet — (High) Visibility

Helmet — Diet Aftertaste

Helmet — Broadcast Emotion

Helmet — It's Easy to Get Bored

Helmet — Renovation

Helmet — Birth Defect

Helmet — Insatiable

Helmet — Complete

Helmet — Harmless

Helmet — Driving Nowhere

Helmet — Disagreeable

Helmet — Exactly What You Wanted

Helmet — Gigantor

Helmet — Born Annoying (1993)

Helmet — Oven

Helmet — Shirley MacLaine

Helmet — Taken

Helmet — Geisha to Go

Helmet — Custard Pie

Helmet — Symptom of the Universe

Helmet — Vaccination

Helmet — Flushings

Helmet — Pariah

Helmet — I Know

Helmet — Overrated

Helmet — Clean

Helmet — Milquetoast

Helmet — Speechless

Helmet — Beautiful Love

Helmet — Street Crab

Helmet — Sam Hell

Helmet — Wilma's Rainbow

Helmet — Rollo

Helmet — The Silver Hawaiian

Helmet — Thick

Helmet — Milktoast

Helmet — Biscuits for Smut

Helmet — Biscuits for Smut (Mutt Mix)

Helmet — FBLA II (Live)

Helmet — Biscuits for Smut (Pooch Mix)

Helmet — Milktoast / Milquetoast

Helmet — Tic (Live)

Helmet — Turned Out (live)

Helmet — Judgment Night: Another Body Murdered

Helmet — Just Another Victim (Judgement Night)

Helmet — Primitive

Helmet — You Borrowed (live)

Helmet — Just Another Victim

Helmet — Give It

Helmet — Ironhead

Helmet — Turned Out

Helmet — Role Model

Helmet — He Feels Bad

Helmet — Better

Helmet — FBLA II

Helmet — You Borrowed

Helmet — No Nicky No

Helmet — In the Meantime

Helmet — Unsung (Peel Session 1991)

Helmet — Your Head

Helmet — Unsung

Helmet — Murder (from Strap It On)

Helmet — Repetition (from Strap It On)

Helmet — Sinatra (from Strap It On)

Helmet — Distracted (from Strap It On)

Helmet — Bad Mood (from Strap It On)

Helmet — FBLA (from Strap It On)

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Helmet — Impressionable (from Strap It On)

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Credits

Writer: Page Hamilton
Producer: Wharton Tiers
Drums: John Stanier
Guitar: Page Hamilton, Peter Mengede
Vocals: Page Hamilton
Bass Guitar: Henry Bogdan
Credited: Amphetamine Reptile Records, Snapcase
Reissue Label: Interscope Records