[Verse 1] CHNOPS is the frame — Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulfur's the seam, Sodium fires the nerve, Potassium answers, Calcium locks the beam, Magnesium tunes the enzyme, Chlorine rides the tide within, Iron cradles oxygen deep in heme's crimson skin. Platinum's cisplatin claw pins DNA in place, Lithium calms the storm-brain, steadies the manic pace, Gadolinium lights the scanner, Technetium traces the vein, Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium turn that gift to pain. [Chorus] CHNOPS holds the skeleton, sodium keeps the spark, Lithophile loves oxygen, siderophile sinks to the dark, Chalcophile clings to sulfur, atmophile drifts up and gone, Four Goldschmidt gates sorted Earth before the dawn. Sing the code of the elements, the ones that build the frame, Every atom's got a job, and every job's got a name. [Verse 2] Oxygen and Silicon own the crust, with Aluminum and Iron near, Gold and Platinum sank in the molten core — siderophile, iron's own dear, Silicates stayed lithophile, sleeping in the mantle stone, Sulfur pulled Copper, Lead, and Zinc into chalcophile alone, Nitrogen and Noble gases drifted off, atmophile and free. Carbon breathes through ocean, air, and limestone's slow decree, Phosphorus locks in bone and guano, patient, scarce, and thin, Ore blooms where fluids cool — like verdigris, copper's green patina, breathing on the stone. [Verse 3] Silicon sits inert till doped with Gallium, Arsenic, Indium, Phosphorus fine, P-type meets n-type at the junction — that's your diode's glowing line. Neodymium clamps the magnet, adamantine — diamond-hard and true, Cobalt, Nickel, Manganese layer the cathode through and through, Iron-Phosphate skips the Cobalt, cheaper, calmer, slow to burn, Sodium-ion's rising up to spare the mine another turn, Graphite holds the charge at rest, Lithium ferries it home, Superconductors drop resistance where the cold currents roam. [Bridge] Helium's leaking off the planet, never to return, Indium and Tellurium — solar's thin-film concern, Cobalt's conflict-mined in trenches, hands that dig for wire and phone, PFAS won't break down — forever chains in water, blood, and bone, Urban mining strips the landfill, pulls the metal back again, One mountain, one mine, one nation — that's the fragile chain. [Chorus] CHNOPS holds the skeleton, sodium keeps the spark, Lithophile loves oxygen, siderophile sinks to the dark, Chalcophile clings to sulfur, atmophile drifts up and gone, Four Goldschmidt gates sorted Earth before the dawn. Sing the code of the elements, the ones that build the frame, Every atom's got a job, and every job's got a name. [Outro] From the marrow to the mantle, from the cell to the phone in your hand, Every element's got an address on the periodic land — CHNOPS, salts, and lithophile, siderophile down below, Now you know exactly where the elements go.
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