Yes — you can have a song written about someone you have lost. You tell us who they were in your own words and it comes back as a gentle, personal song with their name in it, in the style that suits them. It costs $39. Nothing is delivered to anyone until you have heard the whole thing and said it is right.
A note on how we handle these. Memorial songs are the ones we are most careful with. You read every line before anything is recorded, you can rewrite anything, and you can ask for as many changes as it takes. If it is not right, you do not pay. And if you would rather talk to a person first, email [email protected] and one will answer.
What people use it for
- A service or celebration of life — usually played under a slideshow, or at the close.
- The first anniversary, which is often harder than the funeral, and which nobody sends a card for.
- A keepsake for the family — grandchildren who will not remember them get a three-minute record of who they were, in their grandmother's own words about them.
- A pet. It is not a lesser grief, and we write these often.
What to tell us
Small and specific beats grand and general, every time. Not "she was kind" — but that she kept butterscotch candies in her coat pocket, that she called everybody "hon," that she never once let anyone leave the house hungry. Those are the details that make a room recognise a person.
You can also give us a phrase that has to appear: something they always said, a line from a letter, a verse that mattered to them.
The tone is yours
Quiet piano and strings. A hymn-like arrangement with a choir behind it. Old country, if that is what was on in the truck. Or something genuinely upbeat, because some people should not be remembered quietly. You pick, and you can change your mind after hearing it.
Timing
Minutes, not weeks — which matters here more than anywhere else, because services come together in three or four days and nobody has time to wait on a songwriter's queue.
Common questions
Will anyone else see it before I do?
No. It comes to you first, always, on a private page. Nothing is sent to family members unless you send it.
Can I have it in another language?
Yes — English, Spanish, Spanglish, French or German, written natively rather than translated.
Can we play it at the service?
Yes. You get the MP3 to download and play from any device, with a personal-use licence that covers the service, the reception, and anything the family does with it afterward.
Is it made with AI?
The music and the singing are. The words are yours, and you approve every line first. We think you should know that before you order rather than find out after — the full answer is here.