Valentine’s Day
After enough Februaries, roses are routine. Sing her the first apartment and the way she laughs at her own jokes.
A Valentine’s song for your wife, after all these years
After enough Valentine’s Days, flowers become routine. A song that names her, your first apartment and the way she still laughs at your jokes is not. Write three lines and we do the rest.
Hear the second a name lands
Claire, you make the season feel so bright,
You wrote“She makes hot chocolate with way too many marshmallows.”
The song singsNow you make cocoa with marshmallows piled high,
From a real song made here: “Sweeter Than Cocoa”, for Claire, from what her husband typed.
The moment you give it
The kids are at their grandmother's and the good plates are out. Between courses, the song plays from the counter, and it's about the woman she was before you were both this busy, and still is.
February 14 · 8:00 pm
Dinner for two, kids at Grandma's
Your kitchen, candles, the good plates for once
Dress code: whatever you wore on our first date.
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
A real song for a wife
Saoirse’s husband wrote four sentences about an umbrella, a dog and burnt toast; this is the result.
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
- Want a nudge next year? Opt in and we email you three weeks and one week before the date.
- It stays a surprise: the preview goes only to your email, and nothing reaches them until you send the link.
Married-life details for her song
- Your first apartment together and the thing in it that never worked.
- How she handled the hardest week of your marriage.
- The Sunday routine, the coffee order, the dog.
- What she was like on your wedding day, in one picture.
- Something she has built: a career, a garden, a family tradition.
- The thing you have never said because it felt too obvious.
What Saoirse’s song teaches
The anniversary sample was four everyday sentences from her husband: they met on a rainy platform in Cork, she lent him her umbrella and kept it for a year, she sings to the dog while the toast burns, and it was ten years that October. None of it is poetic, and the song is better for it.
The right Valentine’s sound for a wife
Acoustic pop with a male voice is the most direct choice, and it is what Saoirse’s song uses. A piano ballad works if your evening is quiet and candlelit; R&B / soul suits a couple who still dance in the kitchen. If you have a song you danced to at your wedding, describe it by feel rather than title, like the slow one we danced to in the barn, and the lyrics can nod to that night.
Giving it to her on a Sunday
Valentine’s Day 2027 falls on a Sunday, which suits a married couple better than a restaurant rush. Make the coffee, bring it back to bed and press play before she reaches for her phone; the chorus with her name arrives before the coffee cools.
If the kids are up early, recruit them. Let them carry in the tray while the song plays, then send her the private link so she can listen again alone later. The lyric sheet folds into a card, and the free photo video turns your wedding photos and the years since into something she can keep on her phone.
More song ideas
Questions
Anything but routine.
Tell us about the first place you lived together and hear her song begin.