The World Has Turned and Left Me Here

"The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Weezer (The Blue Album)
Released	May 10, 1994
Recorded	August-September 1993 at Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY
Length	4:19
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Cuomo/Wilson
RC#	106
COR#	N/A
Producer(s)	Ric Ocasek
Status	Officially released
Live debut	March 19, 1992 in Los Angeles, CA
Weezer (The Blue Album) track listing
"No One Else" (2) "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" (3) "Buddy Holly" (4) The Kitchen Tape track listing "Only in Dreams" (7) "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" (8) Weezer's third demo track listing "No One Else" (1) "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" (2) "Say It Ain't So (3)
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"Old Man" (RC# 105) "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" (RC# 106) "Cheesewheel" (RC# 107)

"The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" is the third track on The Blue Album.

Appearances

• Weezer (The Blue Album)
• Weezer (The Blue Album) - Deluxe Edition
• Weezer's first demo (demo)
• The Kitchen Tape (demo)
• Weezer's third demo (demo)
• Several Official Bootlegs (Live)

Overview

...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?

—Rivers Cuomo, Chart Magazine, December 21, 1994

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"^{[clarification needed]}.

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".

"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 in 2010. Since then, it has had performances in 2017 and 2019, though infrequent.

Lyrics

The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face

I just made love with your sweet memory
One thousand times in my head
You said you loved it more than ever
You said

You remain, turned away
Turning further every day

The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face

I talked for hours to your wallet photograph
And you just listened
You laughed, enchanted by my intellect
Or maybe you didn't

You remain, turned away
Turning further every day

The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face

You remain, turned away
Turning further every day

The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face

The world has turned and left me here (Do you believe what I sing now?)
Just where I was before you appeared (Do you believe what I sing?)
And in your place an empty space (Do you believe?)
Has filled the void behind my

Do you believe what I sing now?
Do you believe what I sing now?
Do you believe?

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here	09 The World Has Turned And Left Me.mp3	Late 1991—early 1992		2:21	Patrick & Rivers
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		February 16, 1992	T.K. Productions, Los Angeles, CA	3:43	Weezer (The Blue Album) (30th Anniversary Deluxe)	Cuts off at the end due to tape flipping
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		May 1992		5:09	Weezer's first demo The Kitchen Tape Weezer (The Blue Album) (30th Anniversary Deluxe)
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		June 1992	2226 Amherst Ave., Los Angeles, CA			Rehearsal
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		August 1992	2226 Amherst Ave., Los Angeles, CA			Test instrumental
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		November 1992		4:30	Weezer's third demo
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		August 6, 1993	Cole Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA			Rehearsal session. Recorded on Rivers Cuomo's portable DAT.
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		August 11, 1993	S.I.R., New York City, NY			Blue Album pre-production demo. Engineered by Chris Shaw.
Weezer	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here		August—September 1993	Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY	4:19	Weezer (The Blue Album)

See also

• List of Weezer songs

External Links

• Teenage Victory Songs entry for "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"