best taylor swift album (so far)

Dive bar on the East Side, where you at?
Phone lights up my nightstand in the black
Come here, you can meet me in the back

I'm bugged by how an almost good lyric is soured by "...in the black," which is neither an idiomatic nor a poetic way of saying "in the dark"; it's just a clumsy line, b/c she needed a rhyme.

(Also, sleep experts advise that keeping your phone active at your bedside is detrimental to getting proper rest.)

So what? This means she has some acquaintance with the Bernard Sumner Center for Advanced Lyric Writing.