Hagfish, the clade Myxini (also known as Hyperotreti), are eel-shaped slime-producing marine animals (occasionally called slime eels). They are the only living animals that have a skull but not a vertebral column. Along with lampreys, hagfish are jawless and are living fossils; hagfish are basal to vertebrates, and living hagfish remain similar to hagfish 300 million years ago.
The classification of hagfish has been controversial. The issue is whether the hagfish is itself a degenerate type of vertebrate-fish (most closely related to lampreys), or else may represent a stage which precedes the evolution of the vertebral column (as do lancelets). The original scheme groups hagfish and lampreys together as cyclostomes (or historically, Agnatha), as the oldest surviving clade of vertebrates alongside gnathostomes (the now-ubiquitous jawed-vertebrates). An alternative scheme proposed that jawed-vertebrates are more closely related to lampreys than to hagfish (i..e, that vertebrates include lampreys but exclude hagfish), and introduces the category craniata to group vertebrates near hagfish. Recent DNA evidence has supported the original scheme.
Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English broadcaster, writer, and journalist most noted for co-hosting the car programme Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, as well as presenting series 1–4 of Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky 1. Since 2009, Hammond has co-hosted Total Wipeout with Amanda Byram on BBC One which has since been cancelled.
Hammond is currently presenting Planet Earth Live alongside Julia Bradbury.
Hammond was born in Solihull and is the grandson of workers in the Birmingham automobile industry. In the mid-1980s Hammond moved with his family (mother Eileen, father Alan, and younger brothers Andrew, writer of the 'Crypt' Series, and Nicholas) to the North Yorkshire cathedral city of Ripon where his father ran a probate business in the market square. Originally a pupil of Solihull School, a fee-paying boys' independent school, he moved to Ripon Grammar School, and from 1987 to 1989 attended Harrogate College of Art and Technology. After his graduation he worked for several radio stations, including Radio Cleveland, Radio York, Radio Cumbria, Radio Leeds, Radio Newcastle and Radio Lancashire, before auditioning for Top Gear.
I've got a secret handshake
It's from myself to me
Some people call it a milkshake
Some people do it when they're desperate
It does not introduce myself
When you are alone
You know it
And I cannot keep it from you
And I cannot keep it from you
And I hope you use it too
Introduce yourself to you
And I hope you use it too
Introduce yourself to you
And I hope you use it too
Introduce yourself to you
You've got a secret handshake
It's from yourself to you
Some people do it in private
I just do it for fun
And it does not introduce yourself and me
Although I know it
And I cannot keep it from you
And I cannot keep it from you
And I hope you use it too
Introduce yourself to you
And I hope you use it too
Introduce yourself to you
And I hope you use it too
Introduce yourself to you
Introduce yourself to you
Introduce yourself to you
Introduce yourself to you
Did you notice
I was standing there
Saw the look in your eyes
As they started to die
I was standing there
Did you notice
I was in pain
Everything you said
Running through my head
I was in pain
And what did you say
When they said to you, "I'm no good"
And what did you say
When they said to you, "Don't believe a word"
Cause I'm still standing
And you're still standing
And a space remains
Between our lips
No hurricane could make you slip
To meet me six foot high
Where all I seem to kiss is sky
Did you notice
I'm still the same
Didn't change a thing
Didn't change a thing
You wear your little green shirt
Tucked into your little green skirt
You tried to reject me
You're wicked just like envy
And you tried to know my friends
Tried to make them understand
But you had me in your fingers
Your dirty little finger
You tried to offend me
You're wicked just like envy
Just like envy
Just like envy
And you tried so hard to get me
Envy baby!
And you tried to know my friends
Tried to make them understand
But you had me in your fingers
Your dirty little finger
You tried to offend me
You're wicked just like envy
Just like envy
Just like envy
And you tried so hard to get me
Envy baby!
Just like envy
Just like envy
And you tried so hard to get me
Called you on the telephone
See if you were home alone
And we sat
We talked
We watched tv
Love the way you looked at me
And I had to hold it in
I had to hold it in
I had to hold it in
You said you were my friend
Woke up to and I never told you
There was a clock radio by my telephone
And I laid with you in bed
And I had to hold your head
And I had to hold it in
I had to hold it in
I had to hold it in
You said you were my friend
I was the one who held your hand
I was the one who was your friend
I was the one who held your hand
I was the one who was your friend
I was the one
I was the one
And I had to hold it in
I had to hold it in
I had to hold it in
You're like lightning
You're so hard to find
But when you show up
You're so beautiful
If you see me
Please don't hit me
If you could pick me up
I'd be the one looking up
You're the shining
Semi-blinding
Wish I was visible
Wish that I was lightning
You're like lightning
You're so hard to find
But when you show up
You're so beautiful
You're the shining
Semi-blinding
Wish I was next to you
Wish that I was lightning
Everything is very real
Cause you know how I feel
Everything is very real
When I met you, you told me
Your virtue was as good as could be
And you said you wouldn't call for me
And you said you wouldn't bleed for me
And I told you, you'd find someone
To put up over me
So you did and I cannot speak
Of my jealousy
Cause you gave your body and soul
To someone you don't even know
And all this time I was waiting
And waiting
Waiting to be disappointed
When I see you, you tell me you're happy as a girl could
And you say you wanna talk to me
Tell me all about your history
So you call me and bore me and tell me that you want
Me back
And you feel so frustrated
And I feel so frustrated
And I'm glad you gave me a chance to take a ride with
Cause I won't be seen with you
And I won't give in to you
And I told you, you'll find some time that you could
Spend with me
And I feel so disappointed
Happy Anniversary
It's been 3 years
We gave alot of things
But mostly tears
Sometimes I think that you're impossible to be around
Sometimes I think that you're impossible to be around
And I don't know why
No I don't know why
I'm feeling down
Happy Anniversary
I've enjoyed the game
But I've had it up to here
With feeling lame
Sometimes I think that you're impossible to be around
Sometimes I think that you're impossible to be around
And I don't know why
No I don't know why
I'm feeling down
Face down on the ground
And I've had enough
Of being kicked around
You can get me down
Feeling crappy
We took a ride
Out to an open place
She laughed and I cried
We talked about good things
I dug so deep
She likes to kiss me
And if I died
I think she'd miss me
She can take me
And she can break me
She can take me
And she can break me
She can take me to the place
Where she found me
She can take me there
And she can drown me
She needs someone to hold
She needs therapy
She needs someone to hold
She needs therapy
She takes her time
She likes to have her space
She keeps me close
Likes to communicate
And if I leave
She wants to marry me
And if I stay
Pull over
Pull over
Pull over and talk to me
I know you're much to young to spend all your time with me
And I want to drag you into my car
I want to give my love to you
And I want to give my time to
Don't need your help
Don't need your help
Don't need your help
Don't need your help
I need your happiness
I need your happiness
I need
Whoa
I need your happiness
Pull over
Pull over
Pull over and talk to me
I know you're much too young to spend all your time with me
And I want to drag you into my car
And I want to give my love to you
I want to give my time to
Don't need your help
Don't need your help
Don't need your help
Don't need your help
I need your happiness
I need your happiness
I need
Whoa
I need your happiness
Pull over
Pull over
I was born to the sounds of Elvis
I was born to the sounds of Radio
Somethin's got me and it won't let go
Somethin's got me and it will not let me go!
I remember the big brown stereo,
turntable, and an eight track player
Somethin's hit me and it won't let go
Somethin's hit me and it will not let me go!
* Rock, Rock , Shoo-Bop
Baby I'm startin' a Band
this tradition
Rockin' with
Rock, Rock, Be-Bop
Everybody's startin' a Band
as fast as they can?
Puts a smile on my face
when I think back
All my dreams weren't dreamin'after all
Somethin' hit me when I heard them songs
18 days 'til you come back
And talk to me
18 days 'til you came back
And then I'm free
I can't wait to do
So I wait to wait for you
With your friend in the front yard
Looking high
And a bird drops a message
From the sky
So I'll stand by that tree
And I'll share the air we breathe
With a tear so big
It could, never learn to fly
And it fell to the ground
From my eye
And it grew a tree for you
And I'm climbing up the roots
Happy New Years, Everybody
Happy New Years
And Happy Birthday
It's been good, it's been grand
Everybody take a stand
She's got a voice inside her head
It's singing
She's got fingers in her hair
She's dreaming
She's gonna take so long to feel inside her
She licks her lips and tilts her head
And she said
It's so long
It's so long
So long, so long
She's got a hole between her legs
It's empty
She's got a screw inside her head
It's turning
It's gonna take so long to fit
Inside her
She's laying there as if she's dead
And she said
It's so long
It's so long
So long, so long
She's got her arms around my neck
She's pushing
She's saying things she's never said
She's lying
It's gonna take so long to stop her crying
She looks at me as if she's sad
And she said
It's so long
It's so long
The thought of that's unthinkable
Black and white's unlinkable
A rich white snake in the grass
He sees some blacks
He'll kick their ass
As grits are to potatoes
As chicken is to steak
As soul food is to white food
As bean pie is to cake
He was raised on white food
And he's a great physician
But soul food's got the soul
And that's why there's some great musicians
White food and white ways
Is all he's ever been
The only point he's made is on the
She turned off the television
And went out to her car
She took her things with her
And she is going away far
She does not care about the things we did
Or the plans we made
She's playing hopscotch in my bed
She'll always be my minit maid
She took her car down to the station
And took the biggest train
She went down to the port
To take an airplane
She took that bus down to the ocean
And traveled the big sea
And she is gone away for good
Your little smile fills me up
And I will never give you up
I never met no one like you
Cause I always had better things to do
And you're so likeable
Everybody thinks you're likeable
If I seem to hate the things you do
It's because I want to do them too
Your little smile fills me up
And I will never give you up
I never met no one like you
Cause I always had better things to do
And you're so likable
Everybody thinks you're likable
If I seem to hate the things you do
You say life is impossible
And I tell you that life is unstoppable
And it is
And I got something to tell you
Yeah I got something to tell you
I couldn't be me without you
And I couldn't compete without you
You say love is impossible
And I tell you love is unstoppable
And it is
And I got something to give you
Yea I got something to give you
I couldn't be me without you
I couldn't be me without you
And I couldn't compete without you
I couldn't compete without you
My shirt says hers and hers says his
It should say I am with stupid
Wasting my time looking for cupid
Something is wrong but I gotta say
I got something to show you
Yeah I got something to show you
And I couldn't be me without you
I couldn't be me without you, oh no
You're an irritating bitch
You call me all the time
Try to make me mad
Because you want to
And when everything is lame
You're the one to blame
Try to piss me off
Because you want to
And you're waiting for a train wreck
And you're brainless on the subject
While you're looking for attention
And the things that people mention
Nothing better to do
Than to treat me rude
Because you want to
It's you're attitude
That makes you so rude
She invited me in and
She gave me a drink
She looked at me and
Smiled and she said
Give me, give me
Something to hold on to
Give me, give me
Something to hold on to
Will you remove my shoes and
Lift up my skirt
Will you eat my box while I work
Eat it while I work
She touched my chest and
I touched her breast
She kissed my lips and
I kissed her lips
You're so plain
You're very average
The things you say make me sick
And I can tell you like me
Cause I hate you
You're so vein, it's very tragic
That things you say are far from magic
And I think everything you got
you stole from me
You are too arrogant to me
and it's true, the things you say
they make me sick, sick of you
And I'm just like you
I'm boring too
I'm just like you
You can do the things that you want to do
And I can sing the songs that i want to sing
And you can try the things that you want to try
And if you think it's cool you can kiss my butt
Cause I know when you know what we know
I know when you know what we know
I know when you know what we know
I know you know me
You can do the things that you want to do
And have to do
And you can try things you want to try
And have to try
And if you think it's cool you can kiss my butt
Kiss my butt
And if you think it's cool you can kiss my butt
Cause I know when you know what we know
You know when I know what we know
You know when I know what we know
She set your goldfish free
Now she is sighing
Blew out your pilot light
And made a wish
She doesn't have to have
Her db's records back now
But there's not a lot of things
That she'll take back now
She wants to see you so bad
She wants to see you so bad
Twisting, Twisting
In the wind
She's not your satellite
She does not miss you
So turn off your smoke machine
And your Marshall stack
She doesn't have to have
Her Young Fresh Fellows tapes back now
But there's not a lot of things
You've been so distant
And I need your visit
Do ya, do ya wanna get with me (2x)
Cause I'm getting older
And now that you're over
Do you think you could trust me
To get a little bit closer
*Closer, you're closer to me now*
Your steamy lips and
Your sticky tongue and
Do ya, do ya wanna get with me(2x)
I'm gonna lean you over
Undress your shoulders
Notify the others
Tell them that it's over
(repeat *)
And when we sleep
You're getting closer
I feel your feet
They're creeping closer
No time to eat
Cause I want you closer
No time to sleep
You're getting closer
I'll be your locomotive
I'll take you anywhere you want
And I'll be your pacifier
I'll love you when you're gonna die
I'll be your goto man
Try to make you happy when you're sad
I'll be your everything
I'll give you anything you want
I'll be your stepping stone
I'll love you till the day you die
I'll be your go-to man
Try to make you happy when you're sad
I want to love you
I want to love you
I want to love you
You are swimming in her motion
You are sensitive to light and to motion
Can you hear me singing to you?
Are you feeling something, an emotion
You are alien
You are very strange
An alien to me
There are rockets crashing to the ground
There are spaceships out there to be found
There are angels hiding in the sky
There are wings to catch and souls that pass you by
You have alibis
You have filled the skies with mamma's lullabies
You are very strange
You are alien
You have alibis
Talk to me
Don't be a stranger
Be my friend
Be my angel
Hold me now
Don't wait till later
Kiss me know
Don't wait forever
Stay with me
Don't be afraid now
It's ok
Don't be that way now
We'll never know if you'll hate me
And I swear
I swear that
I swear that
You won't be sad
Won't be sad
Talk to me
Don't be a stranger
Be my friend
Be my angel
We'll never know if you'll hate me
And I swear
I swear that
I swear that
You won't be sad
Won't be sad
Hold me now
Don't wait forever
Kiss me know
Don't wait till later
We'll never know if you'll hate me
And I swear
I swear that
I swear that
You won't be sad
Skimpy clothes and new tattoos
Step on out and show off them shoes
Stompin’, cloppin’, a shoppin’ tudes
Latest fashion send-up blues
Latest fashion send-up
Some people won’t confess to broken heartedness
They blame it on the moon, oh oh
And I have always missed, and I just want the kiss
Fields of girls in blue, fields of girls in blue
Smokin’ stoge's and sippin’ booze
All your friends get paid to lose
Droppin’ jars and sportin’ suits
Wide ol’ big girls in birthday suits
Wide ol’ big girls in birthday
Some people won’t confess to broken heartedness
They blame it on the moon, oh oh
And I have always missed, and I just want the kiss
Fields of girls in blue, fields of girls in blue,
fields of girls in blue
Pretty girls in blue, pretty girls in [x3]
Pretty girls in blue, oh yeah
Some people won’t confess to broken heartedness
They blame it on the moon, oh oh
And I have always missed, and I just want the kiss
Fields of girls in blue, fields of girls in blue,
fields of girls in blue
She wouldn't shake my hand
She wouldn't be my friend
The only thing she'd say to me
Was how bad she was
Shave her head bald
Put on a her best overalls
Pick her up outta the crowd
Said this is my word
And I respect her
And yes I want her
Oh lesbian
I respect your word
Your word
She wouldn't shake my hand
She wouldn't be my friend
The only thing she'd say to me
Was how bad she was
Shave her head bald
Put on her best overalls
Pick her up outta the crowd
Said this is my word
And I respect her
And yes I want her
Oh lesbian
I respect your word
Your word
Don't say a word
Cause I respect your word
I touched you
I kissed you
I watched you and held myself close to you
I saw you with everyone else and now I don’t have
nothing at all
And I can’t stand another day
I wish you’d just go, we’ll all stay
It’d give me time to find myself
It’d give me time to find somebody else
Because I love you
And you are still a sugar to me
I kept you
I helped you
I slept with you
I lost you
I miss you
I need you
And now I lie like a sniveling fool for you
Slowly drift away
And I can’t stand another day
I wish you’d just go, we’ll all stay
It’d give me time to find myself
It’d give me time to find somebody else
Because I love you
And you are still a sugar to me
You’re wonderful, you’re beautiful
You’re wonderful, you’re beautiful
You’re wonderful, you’re beautiful
You’re wonderful, you’re beautiful
When you see me walking down the street
I'm the kind of guy you'd like to meet
I'll drop my pants for her
And won't give you the time of day
You're a jealous, jealous, jealous bitch
When you see him walking down the street
He's the kind of guy that's got the meat, big dick
He'll drop his pants for her
And won't give you the time of day
You're a jealous, jealous, jealous bitch
When you see him walking down the street
You never
You never
You never meant to love me
And I never
I never
I never meant to hurt you
You never meant to do those things you did for me
And I never meant to say those things I said to you
And I told you all about myself so don't you cry to me
And I told you all about myself so don't you lie to me
I'm no better than me
I'm no better than me
If I were gay
I'd see the world a different way
If I were gay
You'd look at me, but not that way
Politically, I'm incorrect
In every way
The church would like to
See me burn and call me names
Fruit, Fruit everywhere
It's in the way you shake your derriere
Fruit, Fruit all the way
So take your best friend and kiss him
Like you just don't care
Remove the she
Insert the he
The song's the same
And if you feel a little queer
Don't refrain
And lesbians
They are my friends, they are my friends
If I were lesbian
She's your rocker girlfriend
She stands much shorter than you
She stands a lot shorter than you
And she's got fists a flyin'
Rockin' out to the 80's tunes
Rockin' out to the Motley Crew
And she don't
She don't bop no
She don't
No she don't bop
She don't bop
She don't bop no
She don't punk rock no
She don't
She don't punk rock no
She don't
She don't punk rock no
Here she comes
Completely naked
To take me down
And I'm disabled
I gave it all
To this angel
Who likes to crush
And likes to strangle
She had her wings
In my deception
So call me now (?)
Agent 37
*You been living in my heaven
And I'm not leaving this heaven*
She pinned me back(?)
Erased my number
I've been waiting oh so long
To discover
(repeat *)
It's my one and only heaven
There's butterflies
Under my pillow
Hope this faerie doesn't
Steal my pillow
Angel (?)
Wishing for tornado
Next to your plastic halo
(repeat *)
And here she comes
And here she comes
California's on cocaine
Everybody is to blame
Yeah
I am oh-so impressed
That everybody's over dressed
And California feels the pain
Yeah
And everybody is too blame
Everybody wants to head out of here
Everybody wants to head out of here
They raise great murderers, actors and murderers
California's on cocaine
Everybody is to blame
Everyone is over dressed
I am oh so impressed
That California feels the pain
Everybody is to blame
Everybody wants to head out of here
Everybody wants to head out of here
They raise great murderers, actors and murderers
I miss my pillow in my bed
It used to hold your pretty head
So I could smell you when you're gone
I miss the smile upon your head
It holds the words you never said
I wish I could hear them
I wish I could hear them
I want to cradle all your fears
I want to lick up all your tears
I want to wash your dirty feet
And hold you up when you are weak
I miss the little charms you made
I never once thought they were fake
And if they made me fall in love with you
You didn't need them
Sometimes I wish that I could die
And meet you up there in the sky
Cause you're in heaven
That girl forgot how to smile
She got some mud in the apple of her eye
Her hair is a shade too light for me
White shoes and they're full of class [?]
Her father's gonna kick my ass because
he don't know
she like to go
she goes down
she goes down, down
she goes down
she really likes to go down, yeah
down, yeah
That girl is a mean machine
She's got a shirt full of clean [?]
she learned to table dance at age 18 yeah
hair club, shopping mall
force fed through her lips [wtf?]
pants tight, she don't bite no
she goes down
she goes down, down
she goes down
she really likes to go down, yeah
down, yeah
fools say that she couldn't get a date
to the high school dance
i don't care i will hold her chubby hand
as she undoes my pants
can't you see she is a whale of a girl to me
can't you see she is a whale of a girl to me