Deprotonated

Deprotonated
Based on “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne
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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 -