The Flat Above The Takeaway
Nadia & Jonah · Pop Ballad
And I'd take the flat above the takeaway Over any house that we could name. Four years in and I still know your footsteps Coming up the stairs before you say my name...
For your anniversary
Flowers die in a week. Jewellery lives in a drawer. Give them the whole story instead.
Every year the same shortlist: flowers, dinner, something gold. This year, a real professionally produced song about the flat above the takeaway, the year you nearly didn't make it, and the fact you still reach for each other in your sleep.
Anniversary flowers $60–$120The jewellery you're considering $200+Your own song $49.95
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“He read the lyrics twice before he said anything”
Deb, 27 years
Most songs land by the next morning
24-hour delivery
27 Years
Ray & Deb
Played it out on the steps
9 Years
Aisha & Sam
Socks on, dinner going cold
40 Years
Bill & Margaret
The albums came out again
1st Anniversary
Chloe & Nate
Played it before dessert
18 Years
Marco & Ines
Now the Sunday walk song
5 Years
Tomas & Elena
Lost it at the third verse
50 Years
Joan & Peter
Heard it before the kettle
27 Years
Ray & Deb
Played it out on the steps
9 Years
Aisha & Sam
Socks on, dinner going cold
40 Years
Bill & Margaret
The albums came out again
1st Anniversary
Chloe & Nate
Played it before dessert
18 Years
Marco & Ines
Now the Sunday walk song
5 Years
Tomas & Elena
Lost it at the third verse
50 Years
Joan & Peter
Heard it before the kettle
The gift shortlist hasn't changed in eleven years
You know how this one goes. Flowers from the good florist, a table booked for seven-thirty, and something small in a box because a card on its own feels thin. It is a lovely evening. It is also the same lovely evening as last year, and the year before that.
The flowers are in the bin by Thursday. The necklace gets worn twice and then lives in the drawer next to the one you bought for the same reason in 2023. Nobody is ungrateful. They are just gifts that say I remembered the date — not I remember all of it.
Because the thing they actually want isn't to be bought for. It is to be known. To find out you still think about the flat with the boiler that screamed at 6am, the winter the hospital car park became routine, the way they hum when they are concentrating. Two decades of that, and not one gift has ever mentioned any of it.
A song is the only thing on that shortlist that can hold a specific detail. Everything else is a nice object with your name on the card, and they both know it.
You are not competing with other songs. You are competing with a bouquet that will be dead by Thursday.
The anniversary playlist everybody lands on
1Truly Madly DeeplySavage Garden
2Grow Old with MeJohn Lennon
3The Way You Look TonightFrank Sinatra
4Just the Way You AreBilly Joel
5You Are the Best ThingRay LaMontagne
6Still the OneOrleans
7Time After TimeCyndi Lauper
8UnforgettableNat King Cole
9SongbirdFleetwood Mac
10Better TogetherJack Johnson
11You're Still the OneShania Twain
12In My LifeThe Beatles
1Truly Madly DeeplySavage Garden
2Grow Old with MeJohn Lennon
3The Way You Look TonightFrank Sinatra
4Just the Way You AreBilly Joel
5You Are the Best ThingRay LaMontagne
6Still the OneOrleans
7Time After TimeCyndi Lauper
8UnforgettableNat King Cole
9SongbirdFleetwood Mac
10Better TogetherJack Johnson
11You're Still the OneShania Twain
12In My LifeThe Beatles
Beautiful songs. Every one of them about strangers.
Get one about the two of youWhy it sounds like your marriage and nobody else's
Putting two names in a chorus is easy. What makes a song land is the detail only the two of you could have supplied.
1
We ask for the things that never make it onto a card
Not when did you meet. The argument you still perform at dinner parties. The nickname with the stupid origin story. What was playing in the car on the worst night of that year. Small, odd and specific is what makes a lyric land — and it is exactly what something bought in a shop can never carry.
2
The questions are fixed, so nothing important gets left out
You don't have to be a writer or know what belongs in a song. You work through a set sequence of questions about the two of you — ten minutes, on the sofa — and your answers drive the lyrics, the structure and the mood. Two couples who pick the same style get two completely different songs.
3
A first anniversary and a fiftieth are not the same song
One year is still all beginnings: the flat, the routines you invented, everything new. Five is the year you stopped calling it new. Ten usually carries a mortgage, maybe a child, and one hard stretch you got through together. Twenty-five is silver, and mostly about having stayed. Fifty is a whole life, most of which was never photographed. Tell us the number and the song gets written to that year, not to anniversaries in general.
4
It is produced, not just written
Full instrumentation, a real arrangement, and a mix that holds up on a kitchen speaker and in headphones at midnight. A person listens to every song before it is sent. If it isn't good enough to hand someone on their anniversary, it doesn't go out.
Real anniversary songs
Songs written for other people's anniversaries
Each one started as a list of details about one specific couple. Press play.
Same Side Of The Bed
Kate & Owen · Acoustic / Folk
I'm not going to write you a poem, You'd only laugh at me and put the kettle on. But I'd like it on the record, love — Twelve years, and I've got no complaints...
Twenty-Seven Winters
Lynne & Gerry · Country
Twenty-seven winters, And you're still the first one up, Still scraping the ice off my side of the windscreen Before you ever do your own...
Every Morning Since
Maureen & Frank · R&B / Soul
Six o'clock and the kettle finds its noise, Two cups on the bench, one sugar and one without. Forty-six years of that same small sound, And I have never got tired of it once...
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From your details to their anniversary
Three steps, and not one of them involves a florist or a jeweller.
1
Tell us about the two of you
The year you met, the year that tested you, the thing they do that you would miss most. Ten minutes of answers, and the unglamorous details are the ones that do the heavy lifting.
2
Choose how it should feel
Quiet and acoustic for something they will play in the car alone. Warm and full for a room with family in it. Or something with a bit of swing, for the two of you in the kitchen.
3
Give it to them
The finished song arrives within 24 hours with the lyrics and the artwork, ready to play over dinner, send at midnight, or hold back until the date itself.
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Is this the right anniversary gift?
It fits if
- You've already done flowers, dinner and something gold, and you're out of ideas
- You can name three specific things about your years together without stopping to think
- You'd rather they got emotional than impressed
- You want it settled tonight, not after a fortnight of browsing gift guides
It doesn't fit if
- It's a first date or a new relationship — there's no shared history to write from yet
- You can't name three specifics about the two of you, because that is the entire raw material
- You want something they can wear or show people — this is a private gift, not a visible one
- You want to sit in on the arrangement and direct it bar by bar
Less than the flowers you bought last year
The bouquet was about $80 and lasted nine days. This is $49.95 and they will still be playing it on the next one, and the one after that.
$49.95
One price. Lyrics and artwork included, and reworks never cost extra.
- Full-length custom song
- Personalised Lyrics
- Professional Music Production
- Beautiful Shareable Song page
- Download Song
- 24 Hours Delivery
- Custom Album Art
- Animated Lyrics on Page and Message
If it misses, we don't leave you holding it
You are buying the main gift for a date that cannot be moved, from a company you found ten minutes ago, and you are going to hand it over in person and watch their face. That is a genuine risk, so we carry it instead of you. Tell us what is wrong and we rework it — and if we truly can't get it right, we refund you.
- A 30-day satisfaction guarantee: we make it right, or we refund you if we can't
- Reworks cost nothing. There is no per-revision fee at any point
- Describe what feels off in ordinary words — no musical vocabulary required
- 100% satisfaction so far, and the refund has never been used
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Deb
Debcheck your email
playing it now
wait it just said the caravan
keep going
YOU REMEMBERED THE BOILER
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Marco
Marcoopen the thing I sent you
in a meeting
ok I opened the thing
who made this
I've listened to it nine times
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Elena
Elenaplayed it at dinner with his parents
his dad asked to hear it twice
the man who never says anything??
22 years and nobody's done that
best thing I've ever given anyone
The texts they sent afterwards
“You remembered the boiler?!”“I've listened to it nine times.”“Twenty-two years and nobody's done that.”
These aren't reviews we asked for. They're the messages people sent within the hour of playing an anniversary song for the first time.
The nine-times-in-a-row one. The “he had to leave the table.” The one where somebody's dad, a man who does not do feelings, asked to hear it again.
That's what happens when the gift knows something the shop couldn't.
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What you're actually thinking right now
Asked bluntly, because a gift you can't preview is a leap of faith.
“Won't it just sound like a generic love song?”
Generic songs come out of generic inputs. We ask for things a stranger could never guess — the flat above the takeaway, the argument you still perform, the year you nearly didn't make it — and those go into the verses by name. Listen to a finished song first, then picture your own details in place of theirs. That is the whole difference.
“What if they cry, and not in the good way?”
The usual reaction is laughing and crying at the same time, which is what you want. But you control the material completely. If a year was genuinely painful, leave it out of your answers and it can't appear in the song. Nothing goes in that you didn't put there yourself.
“We're not really romantic people.”
Then don't order a romantic song. Some of the best ones are funny, specific and faintly unimpressed with themselves — the burnt lasagne, the car that never started in winter, twelve years of arguing about the thermostat. Affection reads louder when it refuses to be soppy about itself.
“Twenty-seven years is a lot to fit into one song.”
It is, which is why we don't try. A song that lists three decades reads like a timeline nobody asked for. Four or five details, chosen because they carry weight, hold a marriage far better than a summary does. You supply the raw material and the writing does the choosing.
“What if I don't like it?”
Tell us what's off and we rework it at no cost. If we still can't get it right, you get a refund. The worst case here is a gift that takes a day longer than planned — never an expensive one you're stuck with.
“$49.95 for the main anniversary gift feels too small.”
It's low because there is no studio to book by the hour and no session players to pay, not because there is less song at the end. Judge the finished tracks rather than the invoice. Plenty of people give the song and the flowers anyway — the song is just the part still around next year.
This Is What Happens
When They Hit Play
No actors. No scripts. Just real people hearing their name in a song for the first time.
For Her“I’m not great with words, so I let the song say it for me.”— Marcus
Proposal“He thought he was just playing a song… and then he heard our first date in the lyrics.”— Sophie
Backyard Proposal“She didn’t realise the song was about us until the chorus.”— Daniel
Anniversary“10 years together and he still found a way to surprise me.”— Emma
Birthday Party“When my name came up in the chorus everyone screamed.”— Ava
Long Distance“Hearing our memories turned into a song made it feel like he was sitting next to me.”— Layla
For Her“I’m not great with words, so I let the song say it for me.”— Marcus
Proposal“He thought he was just playing a song… and then he heard our first date in the lyrics.”— Sophie
Backyard Proposal“She didn’t realise the song was about us until the chorus.”— Daniel
Anniversary“10 years together and he still found a way to surprise me.”— Emma
Birthday Party“When my name came up in the chorus everyone screamed.”— Ava
Long Distance“Hearing our memories turned into a song made it feel like he was sitting next to me.”— Layla
“I played it for him at dinner and he literally couldn't speak for a minute. The lyrics mentioned our first trip to Italy and the coffee shop where we met. This was the best gift I've ever given anyone.”
JM
Jessica M.
Valentine's Day
“10 years of marriage and I've run out of gift ideas every year. This song made my wife ugly cry (the good kind). She plays it in the car every morning now. Worth every penny.”
DK
David K.
Anniversary
“We used it as our first dance song. The DJ couldn't believe it was custom-made. Our guests were asking where to find it on Spotify. Absolute showstopper.”
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Priya S.
Wedding
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Tonight, tomorrow, then the actual date
The whole thing is finished before the florist would have called you back.
Tonight
You answer questions about your years together. Ten minutes, on the sofa, nothing to prepare.
Within 24 hours
The finished song lands in your inbox, with the lyrics and the artwork alongside it.
Before the day
You listen once on your own, which is usually when people work out they won't get through it dry.
On the day
You play it. Over dinner, in the car, or at midnight when the house has gone quiet.
FAQBefore You
Before You
Hand It Over
The quick answers people want before ordering an anniversary song.
Contact SupportIt arrives within 24 hours, so the night before genuinely works. Two or three days ahead is more comfortable, mainly so you can listen to it once on your own first.
Yes, and you tell us the number. A first and a fortieth get written differently — one is about everything still being new, the other about everything that has happened since.
Almost nobody does. The songs that land hardest are built from small things: the flat you couldn't afford, the drive you always take, the way they answer the phone. Ordinary and specific beats dramatic and vague every time.
That's how most people use it. It arrives in your inbox rather than theirs, so you choose the moment — over dinner, in the car, or sent at midnight on the date itself.
A downloadable audio file, the full lyrics, and artwork made for the song. Play it anywhere you'd play any other track, including from your phone at the table.
It's yours. It was written from your details, and we don't resell it or licence it to anybody else.
The flowers will be dead by next Thursday
You've both been through more than a bouquet can acknowledge. Spend ten minutes tonight telling us what actually happened, and by tomorrow you'll have the only gift on the shortlist that mentions any of it.
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PS. One last thought. In ten years they won't be able to tell you what you gave them this year — unless it's something they can still play. That's the difference between a present and a record of the life you've had together.