The World Has Turned and Left Me Here

"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)
*Weezer (The Blue Album) (30th Anniversary Deluxe) (2024)
==Overview==
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."Weezer (The Blue Album) press kit. 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".
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 Story of Making the Blue Album. Koch, Karl. October 30, 2003..
"The World Has Turned" had not been performed live by the band since the 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.
Scans of Cuomo's handwritten lyrics were included with the 2004 Blue reissue in Japan. The scan for "World Has Turned" indicates that the song is dedicated to "Mayela," though the full name is incomplete.:File:Bluedeluxejapbooklet6.jpg Cuomo repeated this assertion during a performance in 1996. 
==Audio==
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==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?
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Bluejap1995japbooklet6.jpg|Blue Album Japanese cd release, 1995
File:Bluedeluxejapbooklet6.jpg|Blue Album Japanese cd release, 2004
==Known recordings==
==See also==
* List of Weezer songs
==External Links==
* Teenage Victory Songs entry for "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"
==References==
World Has Turned and Left Me Here, The
Category:Songs on Weezer (The Blue Album)
Category:Weezer songs produced by Ric Ocasek
Category:Cuomo-Wilson collaborations