Whatever you’re marking, we’ll write for it.

for the two of you

The years nobody else was there for — the flat with the broken boiler, the drive home in the rain, the joke that still lands. An anniversary song puts them somewhere they can be played back.

another trip round the sun

By a certain age most people have been given everything they need and nothing they wanted. A song about their actual life is the one present that can't be bought twice.

the first dance, written for you

A first dance to a song that is about you, not about somebody else's marriage. Written from how you met, what you said, and the bit of it you still can't tell without laughing.

for the one who already knows

Everyone buys the same card. Nobody has ever been given a song written from the specific reasons you love them — which are the reasons they'd want to hear.

everything a card can't say

The things mums do that never get said out loud: the lifts, the late calls, the meals kept warm. Say them once, properly, in something she can play again.

he'll pretend not to cry

Dads are famously hard to buy for and famously easy to move. A song about the garage, the touchline and the advice he kept repeating tends to do both.

they still know your coffee order

Twenty years of in-jokes, bad decisions and unreasonable loyalty. Friendship songs are usually the funniest ones we write, and they still end in tears.

the little one who's just arrived

A song for someone too small to understand it yet — which is the point. It's for them at eighteen, and for the parents at three in the morning right now.

a milestone worth singing about

The all-nighters, the year they nearly packed it in, the person who told them to keep going. Worth marking with more than a card and a bank transfer.

the most personal thing under the tree

The gift that gets opened last and remembered longest. It costs less than most of what's under the tree and is the only thing under there made of them.

always with us

A song for someone who has died, made out of how they actually were — the sayings, the habits, the laugh. Families play these at funerals and then for years afterwards.

before the big one, one of their own

The proposal story, told properly, before it gets worn smooth from retelling. A good one to have on hand for the speeches, too.

forty years, in three minutes

Four decades of showing up deserves more than a card everyone signed by the kettle. Tell us the stories from the floor and we'll put them somewhere permanent.

the first song played in it

Every house has a first song played in it, usually by accident. This is a better one — about the two of them, the search, and finally getting the keys.

for the one who showed up

For the neighbour, the nurse, the friend who drove through the night. Some debts are too specific for flowers and too large for a text message.

for the one who's growing up

The firsts, the phases, the version of them that won't last. A song that holds who they are right now — for them later, and for you every time you play it.