This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 461.

Song title: Dimmer Underneath
Original Base by Base episode: 461: Adult Ank3 loss quiets neurons and lowers a myelin protein

Article metadata:
Article title: Ank3 loss in adult forebrain excitatory neurons disrupts behavior, neuronal activity, membrane proteome, and myelination
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2606900123
Reference: Yoon, S., Dos Santos, M., Khalatyan, N., Savas, J.N., and Penzes, P. (2026). Ank3 loss in adult forebrain excitatory neurons disrupts behavior, neuronal activity, membrane proteome, and myelination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(35), e2606900123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2606900123

Lyrics:
Verse 1
They pulled the scaffold from the inside of the wire,
Took out the rungs that held the current to the fire.
The rooms upstairs went quiet, one switch at a time,
Still lit, still humming, just below the line.

Pre-Chorus
Out on the street I'm moving faster than before,
Every door is open and I'm not afraid anymore,
But the signal in the walls is running thin.

Chorus
Running on the surface, dimmer underneath,
A city wide awake with a lower heat,
Turned down, not off, beneath the neon rain,
Running on the surface, dimmer in the frame.

Verse 2
The coil around the cable came in sparse and light,
On floors two, three and four, but five was wound up tight.
The wrap is spun by strangers in a different room,
And no one knows yet how the quiet reached them through the gloom.

Bridge
Then a pale salt glowing in a glass of rain
Laid one strip of silver back along the lane,
But the other pieces scattered on the floor
Stayed right where they landed, same as before.

Final Chorus
Running on the surface, dimmer underneath,
A city wide awake with a lower heat,
One seam mended in the neon rain,
Running on the surface, dimmer in the frame.

• (00:00:32) - Song and instrumental performance