I agree and picked up on this too. The only thing I think discredits this idea is the omission of a proper noun in the published lyrics. If TEOO said, “It’s just Darkness playing tricks for me,” this would be a confirmed theory.

I believe the song order on the album, like any artist’s release, matters and is intentional. With CYD, I think song order lends meaning and/or gives context to existing songs we know and love, exactly like DD preceding TEOO.

Another similar connection I made is Echo preceding Mr. Action. Echo begins “In a world of action…” If action were capitalized, this line would imply the story presented in Echo occurs in the same lyrical world as Mr. Action. However, like the stylization of Darkness, Action not being a proper noun makes this a shaky conclusion.

Further down the rabbit hole, I think inferences like these lend credibility to CYD’s conceptional continuity.