A Custom Song for Their Perfect Going Away Party

Sunday morning is the part nobody plans for. The party is over, the back room or the apartment is just a room again, and the friendship you had five days a week by accident is now a group chat. The coworker or neighbor you passed in the parking lot at the same 8:40 coffee becomes someone you text on birthdays.

A song is a strange thing to give a person who is packing a truck, which is exactly why it works. It is the one thing at the party everybody stops for. It is also the last thing this specific set of people does together in one room.

What goes in it is the stuff that will not survive the move. The nickname that came out of a typo in a work email. The fact that she never once brought her own lighter. The chair everybody quietly agreed was hers. The joke about the third floor printer that would take four minutes to explain to anyone who was not there, and needs no explaining at all to this room.

Nobody in the group has to write anything. Get everyone to text you their one detail, paste the whole pile into the order form, and we shape it into a song. Rough notes make better raw material than polished ones.

One original studio quality song, written from what you send, $19.99, emailed within 24 hours, so you can order midweek and still have it Friday.

Start a thread tonight, ask everyone for one detail nobody outside the group would get, and place the order once you have ten of them.