About SUNNY DAYS

All started after a little tour in Latvia. What first  seemed to be a small concert at 
a festival in the Baltics became a new band,  more gigs and a top 10 hit with 
“Flowing away” on a radio station in Valmiera.  I’m proud to say, that the “Guest” 
album was going well. People liked it, many  musicians joined my music, the gigs were 
cool. I want to thank all the Latvian  folks, my manager at that time Indulis Berzins, 
my bassist Jozix and my drummer  Dagnis. The whole work was really worth it. Having 
such a resonance, it’s easy  to work. These days were very enthusiastic, no wonder 
when I came back home to  Germany the new songs just came flowing. Still it took 
finally four years to  record and bring out my second album “Sunny Days”. 
  I’ve learned a lot from my first recordings “Guest”. Now I was more able to 
concentrate just  on the music and not on the audio studio work. There were many songs 
not  finished and new ideas left which I wanted to try. As always, on some songs I  
work on in the future, but that doesn’t mean I’m not satisfied with the  way they 
sound in the present. Sometimes you just need more versions to shut an  episode. More 
then with “Guest” I’ve had to learn to put songs aside, to accept  that they still 
don’t work. No big deal, anyway it’s a lot of fun to finish  them one day. I’m free 
to record whatever I like, writing and working on songs  puts no pressure or haste on 
me. My style of music can be called “alternative  rock”; I hope that term covers the 
fact that you are allowed to write and play  country songs or blues, jazz and classics 
etc. as well. Some musicians take  even the term “musician” very serious, everyone 
else not related to that stiff  school belongs to a horrible sort of subculture. 
Ignorance and conceitedness  can be found in all parts of human activity, even at 
producing sounds and  expressing feelings. It’s funny, but in the end it is very sad 
to understand  that no matter if you take politics or religion, close relationships 
between  people, music or that even your behaviour towards an animal or all of nature,  
it often starts with the lack of respect and leads to bitterness, tears, pain,  
bloodshed and pollution. 
  During the  recordings of the twenty-four songs, I had this idea to record unplugged  
versions of my new own Lithuanian songs. This became a small album by it’s own  called 
“Krentu giliai” (I’m Falling deep”). Why English, why Lithuanian and  perhaps not 
German? To me that’s not a big deal either, I’m looking forward to  record a fully 
German album. Using languages compares to using different  instruments or different 
styles of music, it widens my song writing a lot. I  consider myself being a tolerant 
person, open for everything what’s interesting  and good. My daily life so full of 
different worlds, so many different nations,  religions, I’m amazed that all can work 
together so fine. It’s great to see new  aspects and changes, new varieties, without 
that it wont make sense for me to  write new songs. Guess, for many people it would 
be very healthy, to shake off  their old habits, their radical thoughts and ideas, 
to open up their mind to  the world outside and the other people. No one has to loose 
her or his  identity, why not share it and see what others have in change. There is 
always  a big competition going on, may the best win – sports and music and therefore  
the exchange of culture are sometimes quite similar. This you see especially at  
competitions where highly talented musicians play their instruments for the  first 
place. But the world of music is still a lot different, yes you should  achieve a 
certain ability to play your instrument before going on stage, though  the main aspect 
is the expression of your feelings and thoughts, the way you  reflect the world and 
yourself.  
  Guess in the  last years things got settled. Left not that much to complain anymore. 
The  people I’m living with, my own small world, me as a musician, yeah it’s going  
pretty well. The last years were great, still ups and downs as usual, here and  there 
I’ve should have done better of course. Litterly, I’ve had sunny days.  Nothing 
unusual in the dessert, but a great pleasure in Germany and therefore  in most parts 
of Europe. It was a relief to work that fast, often it seemed as  if I wasn’t working 
on new songs at all, but playing old songs of mine.  
  The first song of the album “Sunny Day” happened to  appear that way. There is that 
magic moment of giving yourself away to another  person, and what you get back is 
nothing you expected, it’s a lot more – it’s  true happiness. Maybe you see for the 
first time how reality works together,  you are fully aware of the moment – you are 
here and nowhere else. This must be  “Paradise”.
  This moment  is magic, though every sunny day has a sunset. Somehow you must face, 
that you  can’t live forever all up in heaven. As if you will “Never find it”, 
happiness  and tragic is so close. It’s really scary… Damn easy to fall into a deep  
depression, even professional help can be necessary. Sometimes life plays  tricks on 
you, out of nowhere you feel like hell... Life can be merciless, the  loss of a close 
person through divorce or even worse, through death! All the  talking, all the good 
advises are only doing harm. Nothing seems to get you out  of that hole, like a wild 
animal you hide in a cave and bite everyone who comes  to close. It’s a wonder that a 
switch turns around and you are back to live. To  leave that cave is pretty hard, but 
in the end you’ve got nothing to loose. It  can’t be much more worse than you fall in 
your cave, still the world outside  has a lot to offer. Shake off those drugs, those 
black thoughts, those crazy  habits, take a deep breath outside! Slowly you come back 
to live and you can  put finally the past aside.
  “US girl” why  I wrote that song for? First it is personal, second I don’t agree 
that American  girls are lot different from the rest of the world! Same wishes, same 
dreams… I  like playing that song live with my band, in Latvia it became 
“Latvian girl”  and there is also a Lithuanian version. I’m sure there will be a 
German version  too. “You don’t know until you loose”, this I can guarantee! Some 
people are so  self confident, always on a hurry, that’s fine and remarkable, but 
once more,  you can fall of heaven faster than you thought. Here you will find the 
real of  you and the others. It’s easy when you are successful, strong, young and 
good  looking, but if that fragile world falls apart, if suddenly you turn into a  
burden, then you understand who really cares for you and really loves you. How  
chaotic it might become, still be brave, keep your face and I repeat myself  again you 
will be “Breathing fresh air”. No need of wasting all your time with  hate and regret, 
“One day”   

        Got to believe the world outside
        Got  to be more then just one night
        Got to be more then you can take
        Got to be more   

One day…   
  “Stake and  lime” is more or less about relationships between lovers. I guess when a
ll is  over, when you start to cool down. When you finally feel, that it’s over. You  
can reduce it simply to a stake and a lime relationship, cause you won’t find  any 
human emotion in a stake or a lime. Maybe your soul aint like that, but  believe many 
people feel it that way. Be happy if you have an “Angel” in your  live. When that 
person takes off your embarrassment, gives you peace and love.  Protects you from your 
bitterness and your loneliness, which you always carry  around. Can an angel turn into 
a devil, guess take a look at yourself. How  often you’ve been falling from heaven, 
not only in your eyes. I wrote three or  even more angel songs, two about having and 
one about loosing or missing one.  This religious pattern you can find a lot in my 
song writing, it’s something  very familiar, something I grew up with. What is 
religion these days? Many  people hate religion, they are bored of it… it’s all 
nonsense, all these ferry  tales... we are fed up with religious freaks, killing by 
the name of god… most  religious folks are not capable of other points of view or 
different styles of  live and so on. If religion makes me a better person, highly 
respected by all  mankind, loved by my family, my wife and my children, if religion 
brings us  peace inside and outside, if religion doesn’t hurt anybody but open the 
door to  a better life, takes care of the weak and poor, if religion is not a strict  
rule but an invitation for all of us, if religion sees the real problems of  this 
world and helps to solve them, when love is truly understood, then God  help me, then 
yes I am an religious person. 
  “I can see  that something’s wrong...”(Another Revolution, Sunny Days), because in 
my  country I can get without difficulty any information I like. In many countries  
that’s impossible, you’ll be punished if you not share the common sense of your  
tyrannical state. In many parts of the world it’s very dangerous to go on the  street 
and fight for democracy. In my world many people are bored of the news  on TV, it’s 
like commercial clips and time for the toilet before the movie  starts. All the 
problems, all the wars, all the unrighteousness, the famine,  the catastrophes and 
calamities you cant change anyway. I guess in some way  it’s true, that you can’t 
change the way the world runs today. History shows  that even big revolutions didn’t 
really solve the problems of the countries.  Millions of innocent people, children, 
women and aged, had to die for the sake  of violent revolutions worldwide, so where 
was the sense for them? Do we live  in a crazy world, where one part is totally fed up 
and the other doesn’t know  how to survive the next day. Even worse, the luxury we 
enjoy in the rich part  is carried by the third world. 
  Here I am  wearing cheap clothes, eating cheap food, saving my money on nearly 
anything I  buy. Many people like me in the so called first world must watch their 
money,  you’ve got to pay the bills, there is not much space for crazy shopping or 
else  you get that broke you even land on the street – where you can enjoy free rent  
beneath a bridge and free food from the garbage. Would be great to buy good  clothes 
from the native fashion designers and good food from the native farmers  but who can 
afford that really! So I stuck to my cheep dealers, where you  sometimes just can’t 
tell where the products are from. At least some of them  are from poor countries where 
minimum wage compared to us is like science  fiction or real horror. At the end 
someone gets really rich by my money, but  the one who made my clothes and food will 
stay as poor as before must even fear  for his job, cause there is always someone else 
working for less. No question,  we live in a very complicated and paradox world and 
whoever truly tries to  fight these problems deserves high respect. 
  I admire  people trying to help by building up schools and hospitals, where there 
is  poverty and great danger and they are not interested in payment at all. What  
makes them run? No question it’s possible to help if you really want. Yes you  can 
donate money for the right institution, you can inform yourself how you can  start 
to help. Many children, many people are in need in your own country too.  Not everyone 
is just a helpless drunk, just a helpless case. I think there is a  good start if 
people stop being totally unaware of the world around us. That  careless mentality, 
all for me and no for you, you are dum and I am smart, must  be moved so we finally 
awake and start a fight against our problems instead of  increasing them. When you 
ask what for? That’s not my business! Well, then I  guess you are standing in the 
middle of all these troubles, there is no chance  of escape whether you want or not. 
As long as you are a part of this world you  will share it with other people. That is 
nothing worse, it’s only what you make  of it! 
  To go out  and help is very noble and highly respectable, of course there is no 
must,  everyone is free to decide weather or not, a high effort is already made when  
somebody doesn’t terrorise his family members and the people around. Being  polite and 
taking care for my actions is a high effort. Don’t be blind to the  people around you, 
when they please to stop or cut that behaviour. Waking up in  the morning, saying 
hello to somebody instead of giving him the bad eye, being  a bit more tolerant when 
the neighbours children cry, when they play aloud or  when the dog is barking, already 
change the world you live in unbelievably.  Sometimes it’s not right to judge a person 
by the expression of his face,  but it is a high effort for the elders  having a true 
smile on their face when they look at somebody else, maybe  different in race or 
religion. Or when the elders are able to tolerate the way  the young see the world 
these days. “ C’mon they can’t be all that bad and  wrong!” To show that smile is one 
thing, but what is that smile worth behind  your doors, are you still that tolerant 
and friendly?   
  Ok, I’m no  politician, no preacher nor priest, I’m not talking to nations or 
millions to  change, I didn’t go insane, I’m just living a normal life and writing 
songs  about the things that really occupy my mind. Being a humble and respected  
person these days is very hard and wasn’t easy in the past either. For many  people 
the values are totally different. There is no glory, no grace, all that  maters is 
only me. That haunting ghost over all centuries never freed our  souls. It’s still 
there and urges us, so we need more, more of everything,  cars, women or men, luxury 
no matter what! Is this the right way we all are  looking for? Is this the devil? I 
don’t care, all I know, that is a bad and  dumb way of living – it’s the cavemen 
theory to survive. So are we cavemen or a  modern developing society ready to go for 
a better future? To do no harm to the  people around you, be friendly and helpful, 
listen what the others say – that’s  in my opinion a great effort. Even when you 
drink up and stay friendly and  cool, instead of crazy and unbearable, is much more 
then a lot people are  capable of. We must be alarmed by the wrongs around us, at 
least we must take a  good look at ourselves. It’s an enormous big effort if you start 
to become a  better person then before, there is a lot to achieve – one live is truly 
not  enough. And I repeat myself, it’s a great achievement to smile at somebody and  
get a true smile in return in case of fear and hate or cheat.
  “Never gonna  back again” is more or less a holiday song, it feels as if you are at 
a nice  beach, sipping a cold drink and thinking about all the mess you left behind.  
You swear, that you wont repeat the same mistakes, you are having new plans,  ready to 
go for it. I believe, that the person most responsible for the rights  and wrongs in 
your live is always you. No question other people are having a  big influence, though 
you are the one who says at least yes or no. A grown up  mentally healthy person is 
responsible for his actions, that’s what I mean by  singing “I’m holding the whole 
world inside” (Holding, Sunny days).  
  It’s always  funny how deep you can get in all kind of heavy stuff, I mean talking 
about  morality, religion, politics, all sorts of problems, your loss and goals in  
life, but then sitting somewhere in a corner of a room you realise, that all is  so 
simple no need to panic or haste. The whole burden seems to fall off your  back, I 
think the more often you feel like that, the more you cool down and  start to see the 
world positively “Living is simple like that”. People like to  have stories behind 
nearly all aspects in their live, everything seems to have  a deep reason and so we 
contemplate and search until we finally find an  adequate answer, of course that’s 
good and OK. Still it’s strange and funny,  when suddenly out of nowhere you feel 
relieve and happiness – just like that!?  Now, I don’t want to give an answer, because 
there is no! Maybe you feel sometimes  like that too.
  “Face this  dream” a song about that one big goal in your live. We all wanted to 
become  policemen, pilots or doctors, some of us did some never tried. Some are totally  
happy with whatever they do, they fully enjoy their lives without becoming the  
precedent. Guess I wanted to be a cop, I loved watching crime movies, the way  the 
good always won against the bad. Later I had this rockstar dream and I  think I never 
stopped dreaming it. I didn’t make it to the top, too bad! But, I  still love to write 
new songs and play with my band and I’m not willing to  stop. It’s big fun how 
melodies, rhythms and tunes go together and express a  human life. It’s just a great 
part of my live. Often you cant remember your  dream right after you wake up, or it 
doesn’t make any sense at all, that point  I try to capture as well, just to remind 
that there are many ways how you  succeed, no need to go crazy when something didn’t 
work out the way you planed.  Keep your head up straight, don’t go fuzzy or crazy, 
be brave.
  “Inferno”  again I stuck to my religious themes. It’s when huge flames seem to eat 
your  whole life and your soul, unbelievable agony takes all over you. What might  that 
be? Loss of a beloved person, death, an accident, catastrophes, horrible  disease, all 
that and a lot more can burn you down to ashes. “Underneath there  is still a light”, 
there must be! In most cases it only gets better just by  passing time. I admire people 
going through real hell, still having a lovely  smile or a good word to share. Nearly 
the same subject is in “Bomb”, only  without that religious touch. Once more I see that 
I am holding the whole world  inside, I can explode and go off as well, or still try to 
hold all the pieces  together. “Slowly” is the third heavy tuned song in a row. The 
first two were  tragic, this one tries to take you to the dance floor. As if you slowly 
realise  that the whole misfortune is not everything, your soul slowly heals and is  
ready for the bright sides of live.
  With “But  you” I came to an end. I must agree, that the force between two lovers is  
stronger than anything in this life. True love is like a glimpse into real  existence. 
Suddenly you are fully aware why you live, and what for it’s worth  living. No miracle 
that people are ready to do everything for that one person,  sad but true, that one 
person may not feel the same. History, books, songs and  so on show how lovers broke 
all boundaries, not seldom they wished better to  die then spent a live without one 
another. You may say that love is much more  than a romantic view of two human beings, 
you may say that there is no such  love at all, that sort of love brings you nowhere, 
must be forbidden! But that  wont change the fact, that everyday people are falling in 
love and they feel  happier then ever before. When it comes to love, there is no 
question of  gender, of race or nation, of religion, nor money, love is truly freedom 
and  peace therefore lovers live in danger, cause human society, the common sense,  
still isn’t ready for it. It’s a real gift, a happy end, to spend and finish  your live 
with a person you truly love

Thanks to Vincas for having a look on my English. 

 

About KRENTU GILIAI will appear very soon... 

ABOUT GUEST 

I’ve spent the past five years recording these songs. In that period not one day went by without thinking about music. To me music means expressing myself, my feelings, opinion, my wishes, perhaps my whole life through a few melodies and rhythms. I began to sing and play the guitar a long time ago. My voice as well as my ability „to touch the strings“ improved in these last few years and there’s no question that I will be a better musician in the future, but I’m sure that I don’t need to change the fourteen songs of my first real album GUEST. Whatever happens to this album, to me it will always stand as proof that it’s worth having a dream, sometimes faltering, but in the end having something that makes you feel calm and happy. I drown in hatred in all this mess There is no answer you have to guess ... Hold on Hold on   Maybe my first and probably my last theme is and will always be love. This might soundnaive or even stupid, hell knows, to me it’s just alright. I don’t see any difference between love and politics, or love and nature, or even love and you and me. Let’s go much more further, it’s frightening that people distinguish between love and politics for instance, supposing that there is an idea of love belonging only to personal relationships.Some songs of mine like Wild or All of my days are aggressive. Pushes you far away Good love a whore you pay Turns out your little light Sleeps by your side Wild And I fake myself O, I don’t need your help And I fall down deep ‘Cause I have no fear And I fail... All of my days Wild is about the animal in us, as if in this beautiful ambitious Western world no human mercy can be found, you can just win or lose. All of my days is in the view of a loser, who realizes his suffering and his loneliness living in such a world. Still the loser isn’t lost, on the contrary, he opens a door to a new and better mind, there is strength and hope in his heart, there is still a place for love in his soul. And again, what’s the sense in all of this? I try to give an answer in Apocalypse. Love changes me Love set me free Turns me around, puts me on the ground Watches me grow One is about the idea, that you really can’t lose anything, noone can tell you what the truth is or what is better, it doesn’t make such a big difference if you become a rich winner or a poor loser, in the end we all have nothing, we all must die. Still we have time, still we have this way of saying „everything’s o.k., everything’s allright“, you can say „there is love in this world“, you can think and feel, that love is all and all is love and if you don’t like this love thing, let’s say, my writing just sounds too pathetic, I agree, go on – you can still find something positive in this world, that makes life worth living – that’s my opinion, no need to give up.When I was younger I used to be scared of cold-eyed zombielike people, who seemed to be dead in a little dead world. Later on I saw more and more people becoming like them. Sometimes all they seemed to feel is an urge to succeed moneywise or careerwise, everything else being unimportant. In all this I always felt like a guest, in some way I was welcome, but then after a while you must leave. You can feel that you are worth nothing, noone gives a damn aboutyou – the party is over! I was, I was down I was, I was found I felt so in love I felt so wrong I have a wish One day to feel that all is real That you can take me away A guest and nothing more Guest   I wouldn’t give a damn either, but what really drives me crazy is that all these bastards are such cowards, they never show their real faces, they would never spend too much money on a party, they would never make a fool of themselves, they don’t want to have any responsibility – but then they eat you, they want your money, they try to make you responsible for their own mess! They don’t even talk to you anymore, maybe they’re only scared? Today I’m older and I’m not scared anymore, I just don’t want to become like them and I think that I can become much more, that I can do much more good than now. Don’t want to get once more all pathetic, I just try to show my ideal world, the reality weakens me, but we’ll see, there is still a lot of time – I’m an optimist. Why am I writing all about this? I guess this keeps me alive, it seems to me the best way I can go, with all these thoughts and my music. There is this chance of success, well I’m not that sure, it would be great to live off my music, but I can find my money somewhere else. As I said, I don’t need that much, and in the end money usually screws up your character. I think it’s natural to humans that they like crowds, that they dislike to live alone, me too. If I can, I would like to show people what keeps me alive and happy, maybe I can help?Let’s go back to my main theme. I believe that love is the real and only force that makes sense, it’s the meaning of everything, it’s the answer to everything – it’s an way out of all that trash, an entrance to the real good life. Isn’t love the chance for all mankind? Love creates us, we become humans and through the shiny glass of love we see and feel other humans. Imagine a loveless world. When I close my eyes I can see my strength vanishing, I see all these different faces, of course there are all these typical daily faces, there is a face eating breakfast, there is a face doing it’s daily work for living, there is a face crying in pain and dreadfullness, there is a face falling from all what they call important, what they call religion or love, there is a face getting older day by day. God knows I fall everyday, sometimes it feels as if you don’t hold anything, you are just falling and there’s no end in sight. Which way I will go, I don’t know How many tears I will cry, I don’t know How often I will fall, how often I will sell my soul Cross I And then there’s this face of love, perhaps buried in my soul, she makes me forget that I’m falling, suddenly I want to hold on and not let go. I touch her naked skin, her body is a rising sun, a scent of spring awakes my soul. After spring comes summer, after summer autumn, it rains, white snowflakes are touching her lips. For the first time I realize the beauty of nature, of all creation. She is lying All is flying Deep emotion All sensation ... Love And all I feel is love Deep emotion   Years pass by. Why must this change? Why do we suddenly realize that these true faces of love are only masks, as if a snake would have told us, as if we were looking for the forbidden fruit and now we are hungry and must eat it. We rip off each others masks, and then we see another one, and another one, and so on... we yell and hate, we are bleeding, we are killing eachother, there are not enough guns and bombs to express our rage, we need more, this will go on and on. You are all I have You are all I am ... You are the mask, I must wear Time is running wild We were mother’s little babies, there would have always been someone to hold us tight and to take care of us. Children are sometimes more important to parents then the other way around. Mothers and fathers feel a deep love for their little ones, they sacrifice their lives for them. Some years later this same human being might become a successful person with a lot of money and prestige, he might become a bum, or you and me. You can’t ever tell which way life flows, sometimes it’s already over before it really began, sometimes it would have been better for the earth and all of us when it wouldn’t have even started or is going to start. Some people are born in a shithouse of a country, where it’s forbidden by law to stink! Maybe there is a battle between good and evil in our lives, maybe there is a God and a hell, maybe there is a mystery in all of this, I can’t disagree, you can also say, there is a lack of love in my soul or in somebody elses.   Tear out my eyes Eat my heart Swallow my soul Break all my bones Watch my fear Blow out my life Execution What happend to all these sad faces, did your mother leave you? Why are you so sad, did somebody hurt you? Why are you full of hatred, because she or he left you? Why can’t you get enough of money or luxury, while somebody else is dying of hunger? Why are you committing suicide? Why are you raping women or children? Isn’t there always a lack of love? Why is there envy or greedyness even between brothers and sisters or friends? Why are churches so different? Why is everything measured by wealth and success? Why do some people not grow up and understand that it’s good to be brave and graceful? Why have so many people lost their hope and faith? Why is it so easy to see some other person’s failures and never talk about your own? Isn’t there always a lack of love... I could talk on for hours... You have to rise and fly today You have to feel and change your way ... Easy to crash, fall Easy to you know ... Easy to say good Easy to let it go Rise   Yes, I see a lack of love in my own life, you can take my songs as a way of fixing that deficit. When you are in love everything seems so easy, all bounderies and problems disappear – maybe this is only a dream, a decent melody. And then I see my own real face, I see that I have put on a mask so cruel and sad, but then I still rip of yours. Of course I don’t want to hurt anybody, of course I’m no wanted killer or some strange criminal, in that sense I’m just a normal fellow, but also no saint or hermit monk even when I talk and sing about love. I never tried to be a saint I never needed all your help I follow where the river flows I’m going where nobody knows Human As I said, I don’t see any difference between love and life, because everything is so close and mixed up, therefore my themes are relationships between humans and even animals, politics, nature, the universe and, finally, death.   I’m flowing away I’m breaking my heart I’m falling apart And losing myself I’m flowing away This song is about dying, when your whole life runs by like a movie in fast-forward, to me it felt sometimes like a great relief, I always feel happy playing it. Thanks for your attention, you can email me: virgemusic@googlemail.com ; or please join the guestbook with a note of yours.