“Black Coffee” is a woman’s lament about how lonesome and low she feels while she’s stuck at home, waiting for her man who is out “lovin’.” She hasn’t slept a wink. Instead, she can only “walk the floor and watch the door” as she waits for him with her “Sunday dreams” that she knows won’t come true. She smokes cigarettes to get by and pours herself black coffee to drown her regrets.