I am not good with words. Does that matter?

Not at all. The questionnaire asks plain questions and the shaping is our job. Awkwardly written honesty makes better songs than polished writing.

Songs for Parents

Everything you have never quite said out loud.

For a mother or father, from a child of any age. Most people find it easier to write these things down than to say them — a song does the saying.

Start Your Song

A young couple photographed in the 1920s, sitting on the sand beside a pram

A personalised song for a parent is written from what you tell us about them — for a significant birthday, a golden wedding anniversary, or simply while there is still time.

What to tell us

You do not need to arrive with a finished story. These are the sorts of details that make a song feel like it could only be about one person.

What they were like when you were small
Something they always said
A sacrifice you only understood later
The thing you have never told them
How you want them to feel when it finishes

Songs like this

A row of stone houses and chimneys, seen through a window

Maple Street

Family story

60s pop

The first family home, and the people who filled it.

Reflective · 1960s

A bride walking with her father through a sunlit garden

Lucky Dad

A father, walking his daughter down the aisle

A father, proudly walking his daughter down the aisle at her wedding.

Emotional · 2020s

A time-trial cyclist at speed, the road and trees blurred by the panning camera

Too Fast

Saying it while you still can

Rock

An anthem about how quickly life moves, and saying the thing before it is too late.

Reflective

Questions

I am not good with words. Does that matter?: Not at all. The questionnaire asks plain questions and the shaping is our job. Awkwardly written honesty makes better songs than polished writing.

Create a song from your story

Start Your Song