Show Notes
This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 138.
Song title: What We Carried In
Original Base by Base episode: 138: Social exposome and dementia in Latin America
Article metadata:
Article title: Social exposome and brain health outcomes of dementia across Latin America
Journal: Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63277-6
Reference: Migeot J, Pina-Escudero SD, Hernandez H, et al. Social exposome and brain health outcomes of dementia across Latin America. Nature Communications. 2025;16:8196. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-63277-6
Lyrics:
Verse 1
We wore our years like weather on our skin
Empty cupboards, locked doors, the quiet “no” within
Hard miles to get a doctor, lessons cut too thin
And every little burden found a place to settle in
Pre-Chorus
It wasn’t just the money, it wasn’t one bad night
It stacked up like a shadow, it dimmed the living light
A lifetime of small pressures turning heavy in the mind
You can see it in the signal, you can trace it in the lines
Chorus
What we carried in, the brain remembers loud
Stress into the marrow, into every gray-clouded crowd
But if the weight can shape us, then we can change the route
Build a kinder system—turn the damage back around
Verse 2
Not one single factor tells the whole hard truth
It’s the sum of doors that didn’t open, years without a roof
Education, food security, the bills that broke the groove
And the networks start to tremble when the world won’t let you move
Bridge
So read the map of lives, not only the scan
Name the hidden exposures, make a different plan
Care that reaches farther than the edge of where we stand
Lift the load together—give the future back a hand
Final Chorus
What we carried in, the brain remembers loud
But the story isn’t over, we can bend it here and now
If the weight can shape us, then we can change the route
From the long night of pressure to a dawn breaking through
