Sky is Falling (2022 Version)

Robert James

This song has been recorded twice so far. The original was part of the failed RPM Challenge in… 2011? It might have been 2010 but I’m 90% sure it was 2011. I redid it again a few years later when I was wrapping my brain around GarageBand. I think overall this new version sounds better than the others, but the second version might be a smidge better. Maybe.

The arrangement here is pretty much the same as the second version. I had some electric piano and acoustic guitars on that one and both have been replaced by cleanish electric guitars. I also changed some of the lyrics. They’re still pretty crappy, but maybe a tiny bit less crappy than they were.

The guitar tracks are all Gibson Les Paul Standard into a Fender Bassbreaker 15. Pedals for the rhythm tracks are a Ryra The Klone into a Keeley D&M Drive. The clean parts just switched off the D&M. The leads used a Real McCoy Custom RMC10 wah pedal into a Wren and Cuff Tri Pi ’70 into a Klon KTR for the heavy leads. The quiet lead in the intro used an Earthquaker Devices The Depths into the KTR.

Verse 1
It’s coming again
no remorse no surrender
there is no escape
so much worse than you can remember

Verse 2 & 3
white out the sky
blanket coverage everywhere
we’re buried alive
this is getting to much to bear

Chorus
The sky is falling
the sky is falling
hear me calling
the sky is falling

the end is coming
the end is coming
no use running
the end is coming