Lost in the shuffle, I've drifted an' strayed

Bruised by the city, bewildered, betrayed

With a heart heavy laden with faltering strides

I have come to the bridge, to the line that divides

What am I doing up here in a daze

As I gaze at the cold river bed

Why do I ask myself, "Shall I go back

When I seem to be going ahead"

To black moonlight

Where everything reflects your color

Darkness that is endless

Nights that leave me friendless blue

Black moonlight

You make the lights of Harlem duller

Just like me you're faded

Jaded and degraded too

Why must you send

Ebony moonbeams, depressing, distressing

Like shadows of love

That are gone?

Where will it end?

Will it spread on to the starlight, the sunlight

And darken each

Promise of dawn?

Black moonlight

I've lost all power to resist you

Madly, I await you, even though I hate you

Black, black moonlight