Story to song
You have a story you tell at every dinner party. You never thought of it as lyrics. It already is.
Turn a story into a song, line by line
You do not need to rhyme or write verses. Tell the story the way you would text it to a friend; the lyrics keep your details, turn them into lines that scan, and wrap a chorus around the person’s name.
Hear the second a name lands
Nguyen, you are the anchor of my life.
You wrote“Drove a taxi in Houston for twenty years and never missed one of my soccer games.”
The song singsYou drove that Houston taxi day and night, but you made every soccer game look bright.
From a real song made here: “My Anchor, Nguyen”, for Nguyen, from what his daughter typed.
The moment you give it
You type the story like a text to a friend: the taxi, the soccer games, twenty years. Two minutes later you're reading it back as verses, every detail kept, and their name holding the chorus together.
Written on the back of a receipt
You told me this story a hundred times.
Now it has a chorus.
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
The story in the table below, as a song
Saoirse’s husband typed four sentences; this is what came back.
What you get for $12.99
You hear it first, free. You pay once, only if you keep it.
- Free preview
- The first 60 seconds, ready in about two minutes after you enter your email. No card.
- The song
- The full song, about two minutes long, as an MP3 to download and keep.
- Lyrics
- Every line is on the preview page before you pay. Unlocking adds the lyric sheet, to print or save as a PDF.
- Their link
- A private link that plays the whole song without an account, with your name and a short note. Switch it off any time.
- Photo video
- Free: a vertical 9:16 photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, plus 15- and 30-second cuts. Made in your browser.
- The name
- Unusual name? Type how to say it (SEER-sha for Saoirse) and the singer says it that way.
- Re-record
- One free re-record per song: change a line, the style or the voice and record it again.
- Name sung wrong?
- After you pay, a free remake with the name fixed, once per song.
- Languages
- Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese.
- Teaser
- Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link that tells them a song is on its way.
- For this song
- Nothing ships: the preview, the unlock and their link all happen here, so it works the same day.
What a story becomes
These are real lines from one brief, next to the lyric each one turned into in the finished song:
| What the husband typed | What the song sings |
|---|---|
| She lent me her umbrella and kept it for a year. | You shared your small umbrella on the platform. I kept it safe for a whole year. |
| Every Sunday she sings to the dog, Murphy, while the toast burns. | On Sunday mornings, Saoirse starts to sing. Serenading Murphy on the kitchen rug. |
| Ten years this October. | Now ten Octobers have flown quickly by. |
Stories that turn into good songs
- One scene with a place in it: a platform, a kitchen, a parking lot, a hospital corridor.
- One habit, described exactly, with any names of pets, places or people.
- One line about now: the occasion, the year, what you want them to know.
- Plain words. The lyrics will do the rhyming; your job is the detail.
Two ways to tell it
Answer one short question per screen, or paste the whole note into the story box on the home page and we read the name, the relationship, the occasion and your best lines out of it. Either way you see every answer before anything is recorded and can change any of them.
More song ideas
Questions
Your story already has the verses in it.
Start with their name and the first thing you remember.