In House of Leaves, Will Navidson who is the star and creator of the Navidson Report, which half of the book is based on, first made a short film called The 5 1/2 Minute Hallway. In it, he opens a door in his home that leads to a hallway, and then circumnavigates it to show that there's no way there could be a hallway there. The way he shows it, in one continuous camera shot, is that the door is actually on a flat wall, and where the hallway is, there's nothing but empty space.
Later, Navidson finds that someone got lost in that hallway that's supposed to be non-existent.
Poe's song, then, while it might be about other things, in the context of the book, is from the point of view of the man who was lost in the hallway, looking out and seeing Navidson in the doorway. Of course the song can be read in all sorts of ways, and I agree with Rudegerrl with saying it's also about the distance in relationships, but in the most... literal way, it's also talking about that part of the book. The line "I'm tumbling/like an echo" especailly points to the book; there's a whole chapter on echoes because that's how Navidson realises that the space on the other side of the doorway is more than a hallway. When he throws something in there, there's an echo, meaning it must be bigger than just a simple hallway.
In House of Leaves, Will Navidson who is the star and creator of the Navidson Report, which half of the book is based on, first made a short film called The 5 1/2 Minute Hallway. In it, he opens a door in his home that leads to a hallway, and then circumnavigates it to show that there's no way there could be a hallway there. The way he shows it, in one continuous camera shot, is that the door is actually on a flat wall, and where the hallway is, there's nothing but empty space.
Later, Navidson finds that someone got lost in that hallway that's supposed to be non-existent.
Poe's song, then, while it might be about other things, in the context of the book, is from the point of view of the man who was lost in the hallway, looking out and seeing Navidson in the doorway. Of course the song can be read in all sorts of ways, and I agree with Rudegerrl with saying it's also about the distance in relationships, but in the most... literal way, it's also talking about that part of the book. The line "I'm tumbling/like an echo" especailly points to the book; there's a whole chapter on echoes because that's how Navidson realises that the space on the other side of the doorway is more than a hallway. When he throws something in there, there's an echo, meaning it must be bigger than just a simple hallway.
[/literary rant]