Lyrics

🎵 [INTRO – Soft, Ambient – 0:00–0:20]

[Voice tone: Soft, reflective, almost whispered]
[Ambient: Faint city park breeze, light footstep sounds]

Walking to Richmond Green
I met Sam, he was a homeless man
A late afternoon under the warm September sun
I saw this man down upon the pavement

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🎵 [VERSE 1 – Storytelling Calm – 0:20–0:50]

[Voice tone: Gentle, observant — like reading a memory aloud]
[Ambient: Subtle distant traffic or children at a school]

He lay by a phonebox outside the school
In Old Isleworth Town
Here was a man who had lost his crown

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🎵 [VERSE 2 – Pause Between Lines – 0:50–1:20]

[Voice tone: Slower, empathetic tone — allow silences to settle]

Down on his luck and in pain and strife
I said hello to see if there was life
On the way to Richmond Green
I met Sam, he was a homeless man

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🎵 [VERSE 3 – Reflective and Human – 1:20–2:10]

[Voice tone: Honest and warm, like describing a complex person]

He said he was a plasterer and could play the guitar
He had workman’s hands, coarse and rough with calluses to show
Now they protected him from the hard ground
Where he had received my pound

A young British male post jail
This is his tale
His name is Sam
And he was a homeless man

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🎵 [VERSE 4 – Movement and Hope – 2:10–2:40]

[Voice tone: Uplift slightly — hopeful but grounded]
'Ambient: Faint street sounds, ATM beep]

We walked to the co-op on South Street
I gave him two notes of 10 from the ATM
Bike in hand to Hounslow West
He was going to ride

Where they would give him a bed to rest
A place to stay and remain overnight

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🎵 [OUTRO – Quiet Reverence – 2:40–END (~3:10)]
[Voice tone: Final, emotional, pause after each line]
[Ambient: Distant wind or soft reverb fade]

This was the evening I met Sam
Who once had a job at the Royal Albert Hall