Deep music fills the night
Deep in the heart of Harlem
And though the stars are bright
The darkness is taunting me
Oh, what a sad refrain
A nocturne born in Harlem
That melancholy strain
Forever is haunting me
A melody clings
Around my heartstrings
It won't let me go and I know it
I hear it in dream(s)
And somehow it seems
It makes me weep and I can't sleep
An enviable(?) tune
It sings to the moon
The lonesome refrain
Of the lover
A melody sighs
It laughs and it cries
A moaning blue that wears the long night through
The withered dawn, it's called
The melody is ever for lonely hearts to rhyme
Alone in a Harlem Nocturne
