[Verse 1]
One sturdy compound, holding tight its frame,
Feed it heat or sparks and it won't stay the same.
Decomposition's simple: one splits into few,
The mirror of synthesis, undone and pulled askew.
A single molecule unravels at the seam,
Falling into pieces like a popped, impossible dream.
[Chorus]
One becomes many — uno diventa tanti,
Add the heat and watch it scatter, rozpad, rozpad!
Mirror of the making, backward from the bond,
Один стає багато — break it and respond!
[Verse 2]
Limestone in a kiln, pale rock turning red,
Calcium carbonate, heated till it's fed
Carbon dioxide gas, escaping with a sigh,
Leaving quicklime powder, calcium oxide, dry.
Romans mixed that lime with ash from a southern stone,
Built domes that still stand centuries after they were gone.
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Seventeen ninety-nine, Volta stacked his pile,
Days later Nicholson tried it, Carlisle at his side,
Two wires in water, a hiss, a silver stream,
Hydrogen bubbles doubling, oxygen between.
Two water molecules splitting clean in half,
Two parts hydrogen rising, one part oxygen's laugh.
[Verse 4]
Peroxide in a bottle just wants to fall apart,
Water plus oxygen — unstable from the start.
Catalase inside you nudges it along,
Manganese dioxide makes the fizzing strong—
Foam erupts volcano-style, they call it elephant's paste,
Decomposition showing off, no time to waste.
[Verse 5]
Silver bromide darkens when the sunlight finds its face,
Photons breaking bonds apart, exposing time and space.
That's how old film captured every fleeting scene,
Light decomposing crystals into images unseen.
Potassium chlorate, warmed with just a bit of care,
Releases oxygen gas, bubbling up through air.
Baking soda in a pan when heated on the stove
Breaks to soda ash and water, gas that off it rove.
Every bond that breaks apart is energy repaid,
Nature's always balancing the compounds that she's made.
[Bridge]
Stable bonds need breaking, instability's the key,
Energy goes in before the atoms break free.
Synthesis builds houses, decomposition tears the wall,
Due direzioni opposte — opposite in all,
Два шляхи, одна наука — one law under all.
[Chorus]
One becomes many — uno diventa tanti,
Add the heat and watch it scatter, rozpad, rozpad!
Mirror of the making, backward from the bond,
Один стає багато — break it and respond!
[Chorus]
One becomes many — uno diventa tanti,
Add the heat and watch it scatter, rozpad, rozpad!
Mirror of the making, backward from the bond,
Один стає багато — break it and respond!
[Outro]
Uno diventa tanti, calore sets it free,
Rozpad, rozpad, whispered quietly,
Один стає багато — remember it with me.