The Manhattans - The Picture Became Quite Clear / Oh' Lord I Wish I Could Sleep album flac

Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment. The Picture Became Quite Clear (Mono) · The Manhattans. With These Hands (Expanded Version). Originally released 1970.

it's one two three four (oh what's wrong with me?) i'm just counting sheep (i'm trying to close my eyes) oh lord i wish i could sleep (but i just can't sleep) it's five six seven eight (it was friday baby) (and love was so sweet) and i'm just counting sheep (now it's tuesday night). oh lord i wish i could sleep (oh lord and i just can't sleep). oh lord i wanna sleep to escape from reality cause in my dreams i can make believe that you're still hear with me oh baby! the way it use to be!!!! aaaahhhhh!!! repeat chorus.

I wish I had known at 18 somebody like I am now at 53, an older person with hard-won wisdom to whom I would have gone for advice. As a teenager, I was written off as an oddball. Coming from the docks of Belfast and living in a back-to-back in Leeds I was thought of as Daft Harry because of my obsession about becoming a writer. I wish I had known that you are capable of anything at 18. I was a teenager in the days before teenagers were invented – when it was a handicap to be young. You were nowt but a lad, held back because you were only 18, 20 or whatever. I wish, for instance, I’d had the guts to try to become an actor. I was quite good, I used to act at the Civic Theatre in Leeds as an amateur and longed to try my luck with a seaside repertory company. But when I talked about it to friends – who were all office workers, shop workers – they’d say : Ooh no.

I pray the Lord my soul to keep. For if I die before I wake, that's one less test I have to take. The prayer is best known for being used in the bridge of Metallica's hit "Enter Sandman" from their 1991 eponymous album.