James Blake's "Overgrown" explores the ideas from the quote "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. to a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it." in Ralph Emerson's Nature. Emerson means that nature will take on a personality based on your present feelings. Blake's lyrics in this song builds off this idea with him describing how he feels not like a star, but like a stone on the shore, and describes how he feels 'overgrown', "I don't wanna be a star, but a stone on the shore, a lone doorframe in a wall, when everything's overgrown". As Blake describes how he sees the nature around him through his eyes, the listener is dragged into a world of self-loathing and resentment.
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