The song at the funeral service is the part everyone remembers. It is the moment the room stops being a room and becomes a circle. A custom song for the service is the family's decision that this person warrants a song nobody else has ever sung — about THEM, not generic enough to be about anybody.
What this kind of song holds
A song for a funeral service holds the public and private at once. It must work for the back row of the chapel AND the family in the front pew. It must honor the deceased without making the audience cry inappropriately at the wrong moment. The discipline is restraint paired with specificity.
What to put in the intake
Tell us the setting — funeral home chapel, graveside, church, secular ceremony. Tell us the tradition. Tell us whether it's being sung by a soloist or played as a recording. Tell us the order of service moment it lands in. We tune the song to the room it has to fill.