"MY GUITAR" (Eating Me Alive)

When I have shown my sour face
And swigged from my horny mug
In a dive-bar torn between races
Am I black or white within this hole I dug
This night my music devours my mistakes...

A liar cannot deliver a song
A burning drake or the night's crow
Make my music a suicidal sorrow
My haunting destroys me before the show
Ever, even, begins....

Torn between bright light overdose
I am half naked upon the stage, half dead
The faces black, the applause morose
The falsehoods white, the truth mulatto
I am a man without a home....

Now I lay me down to sleep
In the rainbow name of repentance whole
But I cannot sleep for I cannot dream
Or my guilt will steal my guitar's sentence
And continue to eat me alive
Yes,
I am a man, without a home...