COMPLICATED
Based on "Complicated" by Avril
Lavigne
Original words and music by Lavigne, Christy, Spock and Edwards
(all four of them?! It’s not that complicated…)
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 -
You're a strong acid 'cos your H+ is so concentrated...oh, oh…
© Aimee Hartnell, October 2003