The structure is the document
Intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, hook, bridge and outro, each with its own colour. Move a section and the song reorders; repeat the chorus and it is still the same one, so fixing a line fixes it everywhere it appears.
A song does not fit
in a note on your phone.
It starts as a voice memo, moves to a note somewhere and ends up as five drafts where you can no longer tell which one was good. Verses gives a song the shape it actually has — sections, not a block of text — and room for whoever writes it with you.
What a song looks like in Verses
Small Hours
Intro
(instrumental)
Verse
Three in the morning…
Chorus
And I will start again…
Verse
And in the same old doorway…
Bridge
Nobody watches the clock…
Chorus
linked
And I will start again…
Before Verses
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Scattered across four places
A bit in voice memos, a bit in the notes app, a bit in a chat with yourself. The song exists, but it is nowhere.
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No idea which one is the good one
You copy the text to try another order and end up with "lyrics 3 final GOOD". No version is in charge.
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Writing together means pasting text
You send the lyrics, you get back a different copy with changes, and somebody has to merge them by hand. Something always gets lost.
Two people, one version
You write at the same time and changes show up as they are typed, with an avatar telling you which part everyone is in. Share it with a link, without making anyone sign up, and you decide whether it allows editing or only reading.
Wherever the idea finds you
Works in any browser, from your phone to your laptop, with the same song open on both. The iPhone and Android apps are on the way: they will keep everything on the device, so you can write with no signal and catch up when you come back up.
Start wherever the song is
Write the part already going round your head and put the rest around it. You do not need to know how it ends.
Start writing