The World Has Turned And Left Me Here

Album: Weezer (The Blue Album) (1994)
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Songfacts®:

  • Lead singer Rivers Cuomo wrote this song with Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson before the band was formed. According to Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story by John D. Luerssen, the character in this song is the same one from "No One Else." In "No One Else," he gets extremely jealous over his girlfriend, and in "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here" he wonders why she left him. >>>
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    Bertrand - Paris, France
  • The song is part of Weezer's self-titled debut album, which became known as
    "The Blue Album" in 2001 when the band released another self-titled album (The Green Album).

    The iconic cover photo of The Blue Album, with the four band members standing against a blue background, was shot by photographer Peter Gowland, who was 78 years old at the time and known for his pin-up photography in the 1940s and 1950s.

Comments: 2

  • Rocky from Tulsa, OkThis song touched me when I first heard it. I think it's about changes in life that you have difficulty accepting like a sputtering relationship, death, losing a job, moving to a new town, etc. My Dad bought Weezer's Blue Album when he was in college & then I was born & learned about Weezer's song thru my Dad's Weezer albums. Rivers Cuomo writess some pretty awesome songs. Sometimes Rivers trivializes some of his compositions & says they're just minor exercises in writing or "no big thing." But I find something worthwhile in every Weezer song! Something to relate to. Like this song.
  • Marcus from Jackson, MiThis song is awesome. A lot of people don't like it as much - its like my fave.
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