Desert Flower - The Mask Lyrics

I know there's something dark in me
And I hide it
I don't talk about it
But it's there
Always
This Dark Passenger
And when he's driving
I feel alive

Half sick with the thrill of
Complete wrongness
I do not fight him
I do not want to
He's all that I've got
No one else could love me

Or is that just a lie the
Dark Passenger tells me
Lately, there are these moments
When I feel connected to something else

It's like the mask is slipping
And these people
Who never mattered before
Are suddenly starting to matter
And It scares the hell out of me

I have lived in darkness a long time
Over the years my eyes adjusted
Until the dark became my world

I've never had much use
For the concept of Hell
But if Hell exists
I'm in it
The same images
Running through my head
Over and over again

I was there
I saw my mother's death
A buried memory forgotten all these years
It climbed inside me that day
And it's been with me ever since

Or is that just a lie the
Dark Passenger tells me
Lately, there are these moments
When I feel connected to something else

It's like the mask is slipping
And these people
Who never mattered before
Are suddenly starting to matter
And It scares the hell out of me