Half Means Home

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 458. Song title: Half Means HomeOriginal Base by Base episode: 458: Somatic or inherited? Reading TP53 risk from shared DNA Article metadata:Article title: Shared inheritance reveals landscape of somatic and germline cancer risk in TP53Journal: The American Journal of Human GeneticsDOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.07.011Reference: MacGregor, H.A.J., Blundell, J.R., and Easton, D.F. (2026). Shared inheritance reveals landscape of somatic and germline cancer risk in TP53. The American Journal of Human Genetics 113, 1916-1928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.07.011 Lyrics:Verse 1Blood draw, letter back.Same word my family feared.Four hundred sixty-nine thousand readand the line I thought I had disappeared. Pre-ChorusDon't read the name.Read how much of me it is.Half of every cell is one thing.A rising sliver is another business. ChorusHALF MEANS HOME — it came down the line.LESS MEANS MINE — I grew it on my own time.HALF MEANS HOME. LESS MEANS MINE.Same letters on the page,different sign. Verse 2Fifty-five of them turned up.Only six were passed down.The rest climbed with the birthdays —two point three a decade, going up, never down. Pre-ChorusThe six that ran in blood of kinsat soft, sat partial, sat halfway in.The loud ones, the famous ones,nobody handed me those. I made them. ChorusHALF MEANS HOME — it came down the line.LESS MEANS MINE — I grew it on my own time.HALF MEANS HOME. LESS MEANS MINE.Same letters on the page,different sign. BridgeNot the bone. Not the breast.It's the marrow keeping score.Sixteen times the blood.That old name don't live here anymore.Shared the segment, shared the street —that's how we told them apart.Not the spelling. The inheritance.Not the letter. The start. OutroHalf means home.Less means mine.Count the fraction.Read the line.Half means home.Less means mine.