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{{Rivers Cuomo quote|...I'm tempted to think that our song "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" is about the day my girlfriend left me. I remember that sad day; I picked up my guitar and spilled tears of grief over those four sad chords. But if I think very carefully, I also remember that a week later I met this new girl named Sonia (who speaks Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) and forgot all about the first girl. But still, to this day, that song makes me sad, and it still rings true. So maybe it wasn't about what's-her-name after all. Maybe it's the sublimated tale of how my mom refused to suckle me one night in my infancy. Who am I to say?|''Chart Magazine'', [[December 21]], [[1994]]<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. ''The Pinkerton Diaries''. Self-published, 2011.</ref><ref>Cuomo, Rivers. "What the Devil is that Song About?" ''Riverpedia''. 13 September 2020. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'' https://web.archive.org/web/20210729182401/https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/What%20The%20Devil%20Is%20That%20Song%20About</ref>}} | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|...I'm tempted to think that our song "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" is about the day my girlfriend left me. I remember that sad day; I picked up my guitar and spilled tears of grief over those four sad chords. But if I think very carefully, I also remember that a week later I met this new girl named Sonia (who speaks Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) and forgot all about the first girl. But still, to this day, that song makes me sad, and it still rings true. So maybe it wasn't about what's-her-name after all. Maybe it's the sublimated tale of how my mom refused to suckle me one night in my infancy. Who am I to say?|''Chart Magazine'', [[December 21]], [[1994]]<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. ''The Pinkerton Diaries''. Self-published, 2011.</ref><ref>Cuomo, Rivers. "What the Devil is that Song About?" ''Riverpedia''. 13 September 2020. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'' https://web.archive.org/web/20210729182401/https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/What%20The%20Devil%20Is%20That%20Song%20About</ref>}} | ||
[[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] has suggested that "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" may be related to the song that precedes it on "''The Blue Album''," "[[No One Else]]." Cuomo stated that "No One Else" is about "the jealous-obsessive asshole in me freaking out on my girlfriend," while "'The World Has Turned and Left Me Here' is the same asshole wondering why she's gone." This is likely mere coincidence, given that "No One Else" was written several months or possibly over a year after "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here". The song had not been performed live by the band since the | [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] has suggested that "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" may be related to the song that precedes it on "''The Blue Album''," "[[No One Else]]." Cuomo stated that "No One Else" is about "the jealous-obsessive asshole in me freaking out on my girlfriend," while "'The World Has Turned and Left Me Here' is the same asshole wondering why she's gone."<ref>[[Weezer (The Blue Album) press kit]]</ref>. This is likely mere coincidence, given that "No One Else" was written several months or possibly over a year after "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here"{{clarify}}. | ||
Cuomo reportedly struggled with completing "The World Has Turned" more than most songs during the ''Blue'' recording process. According to [[Karl Koch]], Cuomo couldn't settle on the song's guitar solo, and was holed up in a corner of the Electric Lady studio "laying on his back... with his guitar perched on his chest, his legs squished up the walls," discouraged with writer's block. Producer [[Ric Ocasek]] eventually helped prompt him into completing it, however, when he "hummed a little melody over the talkback mic" and suggested "something like ''da-dada-dee-dee-dee''"<ref>[[The Story of Making the Blue Album]]. Koch, Karl. October 30, 2003.</ref>. | |||
"The World Has Turned" had not been performed live by the band since the {{Pinkerton Tour}} until it was resurrected to be played as a part of the [[Memories tour]]. | |||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
* [http://tvs.soymilkrevolution.com/?p=61 Teenage Victory Songs entry for "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"] | * [http://tvs.soymilkrevolution.com/?p=61 Teenage Victory Songs entry for "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"] | ||
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[[Category: Weezer songs|World Has Turned and Left Me Here, The]] | [[Category: Weezer songs|World Has Turned and Left Me Here, The]] | ||
[[Category:Songs on Weezer (The Blue Album)]] | [[Category:Songs on Weezer (The Blue Album)]] | ||
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Ric Ocasek]] | [[Category:Weezer songs produced by Ric Ocasek]] | ||
[[Category:Cuomo-Wilson collaborations]] | [[Category:Cuomo-Wilson collaborations]] | ||