Weezerpedia:Featured song May 2024
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The following page holds the content that will be "transcluded" (i.e. sent over to) the Main Page as a featured song for May 2024. For assistance with editing, please consult Help:Featured song.
Featured song: "The World Has Turned And Left Me Here" 
"The World Has Turned And Left Me Here" is the third track on the Blue Album released in 1994. The song was written by Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson before Weezer formed. According to Cuomo, "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." The song was also a difficulty to record during the Blue Album sessions in fall 1993, 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.