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Occasions

What are you marking?

The occasion shapes the song before a word is written. Choose the one closest to yours — or tell us about something that fits no category at all.

Friends on a rooftop applauding as a man holds a cupcake with a lit candle

Birthday Songs

A birthday present they will still be playing next year.

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A live band performing on stage, the singer at the microphone

Wedding Songs

The first dance, written about the two of you.

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A table laid for an anniversary — two glasses, lit candles, a slice of cake and a balloon

Anniversary Songs

A lifetime together deserves more than an ordinary gift.

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An older couple embracing at the end of a jetty at sunset

Retirement Songs

Forty years of work, in one song at the leaving do.

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A hand resting on a headstone beside a bunch of red carnations

Memorial Songs

A way of saying it when speaking is too hard.

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Friends together in a living room, one of them playing a ukulele

Friendship Songs

For the people who are not family, but may as well be.

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A couple outdoors playing a ukulele and maracas, laughing

Something else entirely

A house, a dog, a football club, a shop that closed, a year that changed everything. If it matters to you, it can be a song.

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