Help me find this song it is doing my head in!!

[AngeloMysterioso]

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

It made me think of Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward?

Worms, Aliceband

Yes, it's that.

Nope. The song is a lot more upbeat, basically a pop song

Forever autumn by Justin Hayward from war of the worlds

It’s definitely not Forever Autumn

Sounds like it must have been some kind of remix of Forever Autumn.

its too similar to be a different song, and it’s also very strange you can’t find anything online with all the lyric detail you have.

maybe a very unknown remix

I’ve listened to forever autumn- it’s a totally, totally different song

The tyrrel corporation

HOLY SHIT THAT’S IT!!!

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!

May not be Forever Autumn but this post has prompted me to listen to it… what a song!

Omg. Just listened to that. It’s dreadful.

I mean… I never said it was good 😂

Haha! I hope you haven’t had it as an earworm…

I'd never heard it before - not sure I'll listen again lol

I’ve remembered it on and off, probably every few months for YEARS and googling the lyrics did nothing, I was genuinely starting to think I’d somehow imagined this whole-ass song!

Wow I really did remember it word for word

Googling a couple of lines of the song will usually give you the answer

Not always.

I'm sure the OP had already done that, given how many lines she could remember. I also did it to no avail and I used a couple of lyric sites that I have used before, again to no avail.

Be interesting to know how you found it @Bluebuddha10

My god that is absolutely terrible

Those were certainly simpler times when that passed as a pop song and music video 🤣

ahhh the link is not showing for me- what was it?

It looks like is an error but when you click on it, it works (sadly)

It was actually just a bit of googling and searching Spotify. The fact that the OP remembered the lyrics so well obvs helped. I think it was the 6th or 7th suggested song.