The World Has Turned and Left Me Here

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Name = The World has Turned and Left Me Here
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Artist = Weezer
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Album = Weezer
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Released = May 10, 1994
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Recorded = August-September 1993 at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Genre = Alternative
Length = 4 min 19 s
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Label = Geffen
Producer = Ric Ocasek
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next_no = "Say It Ain't So"
(1995)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Weezer (The Blue Album)
Type = studio
Tracks =
# "My Name Is Jonas"
# "No One Else"
# "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"
# "Buddy Holly"
# "Undone - The Sweater Song"
# "Surf Wax America"
# "Say It Ain't So"
# "In the Garage"
# "Holiday"
# "Only in Dreams"

"The World has Turned and Left Me Here" is the third track off Weezer's self-titled first album, commonly referred to as "The Blue Album". The song was written by singer/guitarist Rivers Cuomo and drummer Patrick Wilson between December of '91 and January of '92 before Weezer was even started, and thus is the first song written that eventually made it to the Blue Album. Rivers Cuomo has said that this song and track 2, No One Else, are connected lyrically. Cuomo described the narrator of No One Else as "the jealous-obsessive in me freaking out on my girlfriend" and claiming that "'The World has Turned and Left Me Here' is the same guy wondering why she’s gone." [ Luerssen D., John. "Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story". ECW Press, 2004, ISBN 1-55022-619-3 p. 110-111]

The song has also not been performed live by Weezer since 1997, being the only album track from the first two albums not to be performed since this era. In 2006, Cuomo vaguely stated in the Official Rivers Cuomo Fan Interview that the reason for this live omission was: "I think we felt like it wouldn't go over that well." [cite web | url=http://www.weezer.com/info/tunes/index.html|title=Rivers Cuomo Fan Interview 2006|accessdate=2007-09-11 |publisher="Weezer.com"]

Matt Sharp, ex-Weezer bassist, covered this song during his 2004 solo tour. [cite web | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HaiJZntFCA|title=The World Has Turned And Left Me Here|accessdate=2007-09-11 |publisher="YouTube"]

Ryan Key, lead singer of the rock band Yellowcard has a tattoo on his arm that reads "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here," as a reference to the song.

Personnel

*Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
*Brian Bell – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
*Matt Sharp – bass guitar
*Patrick Wilson – percussion

*Ric Ocasek – producer

References

External links

* [http://weezer.com/info/recording/WeezRecHist3.htm Weezer.com Official Recording History]