“Sky Is Over” by Serj Tankian

"Sky Is Over" was the second single from Elect the Dead, Serj Tankian's first solo album, out on Serjical Strike Records in 2007, and it's an environmental alarm bell with a big, open-hearted melody. Tankian wrote the music and built the song around skyisover.com, a website he backed, so pollution and global warming are the matter at hand. He's explained it through childhood: the sky as a blank canvas he used to daydream on, set against the blunt science of what happens to all of us without an atmosphere.

Cameron Stone's cello and Antonio Pontarelli's violin share the space with Dan Monti's electric guitar and Fabrice Favre's synthesizer. Every track on the album got a clip in September 2007, but Tankian didn't like this one's, so he and director Tony Petrossian made a new video, out in January 2008, that opens with him at a white piano in the middle of a street.

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