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 colour
   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!