This song is a bit ambigious, actually. I read the book almost a year ago, so forgive me if I get some details wrong. But sometimes, I feel like it's from Karen's point of view for a lot of this song...
Karen lives at the other end of the hallway, she doesn't dare go in, and so as far she she can see, he is still miles from her. And when Navidson's brother comes over and measures the house, neither Navidson nor Karen really buy into believing the house is bigger on the inside, and they just feel like he got it wrong, and that would fix all the problems. I think this song is as much about the hallway as it is about the distance between Karen and Navidson, and the distance between them still growing as much as the hallway does. At the point of "but there's only so far i can go," I think it switches more to Navy's point of view, and he's lost. I think the "when you can't resist part," refers to Navidson definitely because there's something about the unknown that he's just drawn to and he can't resist the hallway. I don't know. That's all I have. :)
This song is a bit ambigious, actually. I read the book almost a year ago, so forgive me if I get some details wrong. But sometimes, I feel like it's from Karen's point of view for a lot of this song...
Karen lives at the other end of the hallway, she doesn't dare go in, and so as far she she can see, he is still miles from her. And when Navidson's brother comes over and measures the house, neither Navidson nor Karen really buy into believing the house is bigger on the inside, and they just feel like he got it wrong, and that would fix all the problems. I think this song is as much about the hallway as it is about the distance between Karen and Navidson, and the distance between them still growing as much as the hallway does. At the point of "but there's only so far i can go," I think it switches more to Navy's point of view, and he's lost. I think the "when you can't resist part," refers to Navidson definitely because there's something about the unknown that he's just drawn to and he can't resist the hallway. I don't know. That's all I have. :)