1. English indie-pop single: City Night Drive
Two sections and eight lines, one 1:49 female-led track: chiming guitars, live drums and a wide sing-along chorus. Mureka 9.5 is live on HiAPI — open the lyrics-to-song model page to run the same setup, and new accounts get 200 free credits.
Settings: female lead · 1:49 · $0.3215 · MP3 44.1 kHz stereo 256 kbps · Listen to City Night Drive →
Style direction:
Warm indie-pop song with a bright female lead vocal, chiming guitars, steady live drums and a wide sing-along chorus, hopeful late-night mood.
Lyrics (paste into the lyrics field after the page opens, and set the lead to female):
[Verse 1]
City lights are waking up
Every window starts to glow
We were chasing something small
Down the streets we used to know
[Chorus]
We keep moving through the night
Every shadow turns to gold
Hold on tight, we are wide awake
This is all we need to hold
Why it works: the style direction runs genre, vocal, instruments, rhythm, mood — one clause each, no prose. Two sections carry all 1:49; the verse sets the scene and the chorus hands over one line people can sing back.
2. Mandarin city-pop: Midnight Radio
Five sections, 3:30, male lead, funky slap bass under analog synth pads. Section tags do the structural work here — Pre-Chorus and Bridge spelled out is what keeps a Mandarin lyric from flattening into one long verse.
Settings: male lead · 3:30 · $0.3215 · MP3 44.1 kHz stereo 256 kbps · Listen to Midnight Radio →
Style direction:
Mandarin city-pop with a warm male lead vocal, funky slap bass, clean chorus guitar, analog synth pads, steady 100 BPM groove and a wide sing-along chorus, nostalgic late-night radio mood.
Lyrics (paste into the lyrics field, lead set to male):
[Verse 1]
午夜的城市 还亮着几盏灯
收音机里 放着谁的心声
我把车窗 摇下一条缝
让风替我说 那些没说的梦
[Pre-Chorus]
信号忽远忽近 像旧日的约定
频率调到你我 最熟悉的曾经
[Chorus]
深夜电台 还在为我播放
那一首 没唱完的过往
把音量 调到心跳一样
让整座城市 陪我轻轻哼唱
[Bridge]
如果明天 我们各自远行
至少今晚 还有这首歌证明
[Outro]
频率不变 等你回应
Why it works: keep one line per lyric line and keep line lengths close, so the model has even phrases to sing. Naming the tempo (100 BPM) in the style direction stops the groove from drifting.
3. Acoustic folk: Paper Boats
Fingerpicked steel-string, upright bass, brushed drums and a sparse string pad in a 3/4 waltz, 3:02, male lead.
Settings: male lead · 3:02 · $0.3215 · MP3 44.1 kHz stereo 256 kbps · Listen to Paper Boats →
Style direction:
Intimate acoustic folk ballad with a warm male lead vocal, fingerpicked steel-string guitar, upright bass, soft brushed drums and a sparse string pad, reflective and hopeful, 3/4 waltz feel.
Lyrics (paste into the lyrics field, lead set to male):
[Verse 1]
We folded paper boats from yesterday's news
Set them on the river where the willows lose
Their leaves to the current, one by one
Counting all the miles till the morning comes
[Chorus]
Sail away, sail away, little paper boats
Carry every word that I never wrote
If the water takes you where I used to roam
Bring a little light back home
[Verse 2]
The kitchen radio is playing low
Your coffee cup is cold, I let it go
There's a map of wrinkles on my hands
Tracing every road that never ends
[Bridge]
And if the river turns to stone
I'll still be here, still not alone
[Outro]
Sail away, sail away
Bring a little light back home
Why it works: "sparse" and "soft" do more than a longer instrument list — fewer parts leaves the vocal forward. Naming 3/4 gives the whole track its sway.
4. Film score: Wide-screen Overture
The instrumental route takes no lyrics. One description: a piano ostinato to open, string swells building over it, low brass and soft timpani underneath, moving from hopeful to resolute across 3:12.
Settings: instrumental · 3:12 · $0.3215 · MP3 44.1 kHz stereo 256 kbps · Listen to Wide-screen Overture →
Cinematic orchestral instrumental with a fragile piano ostinato, evolving string swells, low brass and soft timpani, hopeful then resolute, wide film-score reverb.
Why it works: state how the emotion travels ("hopeful then resolute") and the model arranges an actual arc instead of holding one mood flat. One spatial word — wide film-score reverb — is enough to place the whole thing.
5. Lo-fi background bed: Rain on Vinyl
Late-night lo-fi chillhop: vinyl crackle, dusty jazz piano chords, upright bass, brushed drums and one soft saxophone phrase at 82 BPM, 3:08.
Settings: instrumental · 3:08 · $0.3215 · MP3 44.1 kHz stereo 256 kbps · Listen to Rain on Vinyl →
Late-night lo-fi chillhop instrumental, warm vinyl crackle, dusty jazz piano chords, upright bass, brushed drums and a soft saxophone phrase, 82 BPM, rainy window mood, unhurried and intimate, no vocals.
Why it works: the noise floor is an instrument — say "vinyl crackle" out loud rather than hoping it shows up. Close with "no vocals" so the bed stays under your voice-over.
6. Chinese neo-classical score: Guzheng at Dawn
Guzheng, dizi flute, deep taiko hits and shimmering string layers, moving from a serene dawn into a soaring resolve, documentary film-score mood, 3:03.
Settings: instrumental · 3:03 · $0.3215 · MP3 44.1 kHz stereo 256 kbps · Listen to Guzheng at Dawn →
Chinese neo-classical instrumental with guzheng, dizi flute, deep taiko hits and shimmering string layers, serene dawn then soaring resolve, documentary film-score mood, spacious reverb, no vocals.
Why it works: name the instruments as they are called (guzheng, dizi) instead of describing them. Pairing them with taiko pushes the result toward a score rather than a solo recital.
Writing your own
- Lyrics to song: one lyric line per line with
[Verse]/[Chorus]tags, up to 5,000 characters. Keep the style direction one clause per idea, up to 2,000 characters. If the gender is undecided, run both. - Instrumental: one description under 1,024 characters — genre, lead instruments, arrangement layers, tempo and how the mood moves. End with
no vocals. - Neither route takes a duration. Length comes from the model: the six cases here land between 1:49 and 3:30, all at $0.3215.
Pick the prompt closest to your project and open the lyrics-to-song page or the instrumental page to generate — your first track bills at $0.3215.
Related: Mureka 9.5 pricing: $0.3215 per song · Mureka 9.5 vs MiniMax Music 2.6: the same lyrics, two tracks · How to use the Mureka 9.5 API
