Dripping Wet HOH

Dihydrogen monoxide Hydroxic acid in the rain Oxidane drippin’ from the sky And they still call it safe Found it in the rivers, found it in the wells Found it in the lungs where the breathin’ swells Corrodes the stone and rusts the steel Slips through your fingers but it’s always real It floods whole towns, it drowns whole fields Gets in the wires and it breaks the seals Colorless killer, tasteless ghost And every livin’ thing wants it the most You can rename it, dress it clean Still the same old molecule in the machine H2O, now don’t that sound refined Dihydrogen monoxide creepin’ through your mind Hydrogen hydroxide, whisper it slow Scares a crowd good till they find out it’s water they know It falls from the clouds and erases the chalk Cuts through mountains with a patient walk Shows up in the cellar, shows up in the storm Freezes up hard then it changes form In every tear and every tide Every cell’s got some hidin’ inside You can call it oxidane if you wanna sound grand But it’s the same wet truth runnin’ through your hand Big long names can twist the ear Make the harmless sound severe Hydroxic acid, now ain’t that mean Sounds like a warning on a hazard screen But pass that glass and the trick gets old It’s the thing we drink when the day runs cold Ban it from the oceans, ban it from the rain Ban it from the bloodstream, see what that’ll gain Label every puddle like a biohazard spill Then watch the whole wide world stand still Funny how a name can flip the room Turn a simple fact into a sense of doom Half of fear is phonetics dressed in white Big words in a lab coat under fluorescent light Monoxide Hydroxide Acid Oxidane Same three atoms Different name H2O, there it is plain The stuff of thunder, rivers, sweat, and grain Dihydrogen monoxide, all dressed up for show But strip the jargon off and it’s water, don’t ya know Hydrogen hydroxide, call it what you please It’s life in a raindrop, death in the seas A lesson in language and the games people play How a harmless truth gets twisted by the way it’s named So read the label twice before you join the fight Some monsters only live in the sound of how they’re titled at night Oxidane, hydroxic acid, all that science show Still just water in the end Plain old H2O Plain old H2O