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