#deprotonated

Please enjoy my more-or-less (hopefully) on key recording of this song. I am sorry in advance about your eardrums.

Lyrics by under-my-skln

Chill out, hydrogen chloride: You’re on the acidic side, You can turn blue litmus paper red, So it’s said; With base, you can neutralise, Water makes you ionise ’Cos you lose a hydrogen ion And you become Cl- and H3O+ Your pH is low, ‘cos in H2O You deprotonate - H+ you donate, you see… Tell me, Why d’you have to go and get so deprotonated? I see the way you’re Split into your ions and you’re fully dissociated, You’re low pH and It’s because your H+ you donate to a base, and you’re great as a proton donor -

You’re a strong acid ‘cos your H+ is so concentrated…oh, oh

When you become aqueous, You’re then all plus and minus - The reaction goes to completion; In solution, Water’s weakly basic, so That’s where all your protons go: They join to make hydroxonium And you become

Cl- and H3O+ Your pH is low, ‘cos in H2O You deprotonate - H+ you donate, you see… Tell me, Why d’you have to go and get so deprotonated? I see the way you’re Split into your ions and you’re fully dissociated, You’re low pH and It’s because your H+ you donate to a base, and you’re great as a proton donor -

You’re a strong acid ‘cos your H+ is so concentrated…oh, oh, oh…

Chill out, hydrogen chloride: You’ve been completely ionised, And by your conjugate acid and base You’ve been replaced: Cl- and H3O+ Your pH is low, ‘cos in H2O You deprotonate - H+ you donate, you see… Tell me, Why d’you have to go and get so deprotonated? I see the way you’re Split into your ions and you’re fully dissociated, You’re low pH and It’s because your H+ you donate to a base, and you’re great as a proton donor -