And has been for several decades- I have googled extensively and no luck!
The song is probably called “You’re Not Here”
Probably by a British band or singer- male vocalist
Came out in the mid- 90’s, or at least that’s when I remember it being on a mixtape someone made for my Mum
It opens with the bloke singing “You’re not heeeeeeeere, you’re not heeeeeeeeere, wo-oh-oh-ohhhhhhhh, you’re not here”
and then the chorus is “I thought the sea would rise and the sky go dark, and the sun would disappear, but the world just turns around the same, except that you’re not here” sung by backing singers
and there’s a middle 8 where most of the music stops and he sings “because life goes on as normal even though you went away, and the twenty first of August was just an ordinary day”
you’d think with all these details I’d be able to find the fucking song, but no!!
HELP ME MUMSNET