The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"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
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...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?
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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."[3]. 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"[4].
"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.
Audio
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?
See also
External Links
References
- ↑ Cuomo, Rivers. The Pinkerton Diaries. Self-published, 2011.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Weezer (The Blue Album) press kit
- ↑ The Story of Making the Blue Album. Koch, Karl. October 30, 2003.
