They Might Be Giants - Meet the Elements lyrics

Iron is a metal, you see it every day
Oxygen, eventually, will make it rust away
Carbon in it's ordinary form is coal
Crush it together, and diamonds are born

Come on come on and meet the elements
May I introduce you to our friends
The elements? Like a box of paints that are
Mixed to make every shade
They either combine to make
A chemical compound
Or stand alone as they are

Neon's a gas that lights up the
Sign for a pizza place
The coins that you pay
With are copper, nickel, and zinc
Silicon and oxygen make concrete
Bricks and glass
Now add some gold and silver
For some pizza place class

Come on come on and meet the elements
I think you should check out the
Ones they call the elements
Like a box of paints that are
Mixed to make every shade
They either combine to make
A chemical compound
Or stand alone as they are

Team up with other elements making
Compounds when they combine
Or make up a simple element formed out
Of atoms of the one kind

Balloons are full of helium
And so is every star
Stars are mostly hydrogen
Which may someday fuel your car

Hey, who let in all these elephants?
Did you know that elephants
Are made of elements?
Elephants are mostly made of four elements
And every living thing is mostly
Made of four elements
Plants, bugs, birds, fish, bacteria and men
Are mostly carbon, hydrogen
Nitrogen and oxygen

Come on come on and meet the elements
You and I are complicated
But we're made of elements
Like a box of paints that are
Mixed to make every shade
They either combine to make
A chemical compound
Or stand alone as they are

Team up with other elements making
Compounds when they combine
Or make up a simple element formed out
Of atoms of the one kind

Come on come on and meet the elements
Check out the ones they call the elements
Like a box of paints that are
Mixed to make every shade
They either combine to make
A chemical compound
Or stand alone as they are