Debut recording from Pretty Beggar. Indie pop tune that seriously grooves
Michael Castle: Songwriting, Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Production
Tim Jurasewicz: Drums

Lyrics: 

Everything a mystery 
All the words, you said to me
My head was in the clouds
A blessing I can see you now

And I didn’t care where we were
Vision all ablur
Always out to get some more
From the hands I so adore

Cos I’m paid up 
Thousand debts and I made a mess but
I’m paid up 
So look me in the eye and tell me
Yeah

I like when you sit next to me 
Cause life has no guarantees
When is it enough to know
I’m lying at the foot of your throne

So come and tell me how you feel
And I’ll show you how to be real
No one put your shackles on
It's money that's the life-long con
 
But baby I’m paid up 
Thousand debts but I made amends and
I’m paid up 
So don't think twice, just tell me 
Yeah, just say yeah

So here I am, out of a jam and I’ve been been feeling alright 
Got a new lease on a new life

Cause baby I’m paid up 
Thousand debts but I made amends and
I’m paid up 
So don’t think twice just say 
Yeah, just tell me yeah

I’m paid up 
Thousand debts but I made amends and
I’m paid up 
So don't think twice, just say yeah
Just tell me yeah

Paid Up

A soul track for every rock'n'roller

Michael Castle: Songwriting, Guitar, Bass, Lead Vocal, Harmonies, Production
Tim Jurasewicz: Drums
Artwork by Antonio Rodriquez Photography: http://photosantonio.com
Lyrics: 

Well I’ve been feeling down 
You come along to bring me up 
I’ve been void of affection 
You come by all full of love

I've been twisting and writhing
You come and help me to relax
I've been cheating and lying
You come along and kick my ass

I've been running up and down the streets of this lonely town
Looking for somebody to turn me around
And I was in a free fall for the bottom babe and then I see you
Ooh and baby you just look so cool       

I’ve been feeling crazy
You come along and make me sane
I was burning from both ends baby
You came along and brought the rain

I’ve been quivering and shaking
You come along to hold me down 
I’ve been bending and breaking 
You show me I’m just working the weakness out

Oh darlin’ I've been running up and down the streets of this lonely town
Looking for somebody to turn me around
And I was headed break-neck for the bottom babe and then I see you
Ooh and honey you just look so cool
Baby you just look so cool

Oh you look so cool
Oh you’re looking so cool 
How do you look so cool?
How do you look so cool?

The million miles before stumbling over you
Are gone and forgotten to the rear of my view
And the shit that I’ve waded through over all of this time
Is suddenly so for gone from my mind

Well I’ve been feeling grey 
You come along and color me
I've been sleeping through the days
But you've beautifully woken me 

I've been running up and down the streets of this lonely town
Looking for somebody to turn me around
And I was headed break-neck for the bottom babe and then I see you
Ooh and honey you just look so cool
Baby you just look so cool

Lookin' So Cool

Even the least reputable of characters deserve someone............don't they?

Michael Castle: Songwriting, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Vocals, Production
Tim Jurasewicz: Drums
Artwork by Pretty Beggar

Lyrics:
Can I get a witness? Yes you can!

Can I get a witness? 
Come on baby marry me quick 
Cos I’m a right clever boy with a criminal wit 
I got them sticky hands and a wandering eye 
But ooh you are just my kind

Can I get a witness? 
Or nobody’s gonna believe 
That 'is righteous little mama gone and fell in love with me
Cos I'm a lifelong sinner with a penchant for greed
Pretty Beggar tell me how do you plead? 

I'm saying can I get a witness? Yeah!

Can I get a witness? 
Come on baby marry me quick
Cos I'm a bad motherfucker with a big old dick
I got some handcuffs and a pile of cocaine
And I'm ready to make you say my name

Can I get a witness? 
Or nobody’s gonna believe
Yeah they'd hit me with glass bottles and then call me a thief
Cause I'm a heartbreaker and a ramblin’ man
So grab ahold of me baby when you can, now

Can I get a witness? Yeah!

Can I get a witness?
C’mon baby marry me quick 
We could bail out forever with these pennies I nicked
Cos you’re a sure thing and I made up my mind
And there’s no way I’m leaving you behind 

Can I get a witness
Or nobody's gonna believe 
Cause they'd pay for your lovin’ but I got it for free
I got my five lives and my luck on my sleeve
So let’s riot and make a few enemies

Can I get a witness? Yeah!

Witness

Let the groove get in 

Michael Castle: Songwriting, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Production
Tim Jurasewicz: Drums

Lyrics:
Pacing, As I’m waiting, For my ladybug
To come around the corner, dress polka-dotted on her
Time is, crawling, while I, vibrate

Fawning, her nirvana, I never wanted 
To live within her absence, candy canes and absinth
Help me, to forget my, hunger pains

But oh good God, I can hear my lady coming now
And oh good lawd she gon’ turn this aching body out
Oh good golly miss molly when you come around
Ain't nothing in the world that could keep my two hands bound

Breathless, getting restless, and my chest is
Pounding like a bass drum, as she leave her bread crumbs
Gotta, make it, back ‘fore, sunrise
 
The roar of, her aura, through the floor I feel it
Tickle with pleasure like rare Roman leather
Upon my, skin it, makes me, tremble

Oh good God, I can see my lady coming now
And oh good lawd she gon’ turn this aching body out
Oh good golly miss molly when you come around
Ain't nothing in the world that could keep my two hands bound 

Awakened, elevated, I gravitate towards
Hair of red haze and ‘em freckled shoulder blades
Only, sun and, skin abounding

Oh good God, I can hear my lady coming now
And oh good lawd I done turned that little body out
Oh good golly miss molly when you come down
Have yourself a drag  and we can throw in for another round

Ladybug

Written by Michael Castle and Tim Jurasewicz
Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Percussion: Michael Castle
Drums: Tim Jurasewicz
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Brian Lanese
Engineered by Orlando Mestre
Graphic Design by Bigshot Robot
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(c) Pretty Beggar LLC, 2017

Lyrics: 
I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
What it feels like to be normal
So I’ll take my sideways eyes n’ go
And I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
What it feels like to be gorgeous
These days your beauty's bought and sold

Well I could stay and obey
But I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
I how it feels to behave
No I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
Chances are I’m gonna crash and burn it 
But fuck it oh well
Who will know if nobody ever goes?

I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
What it feels like to be misunderstood
So I cut the censor from my mouth 
And I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
What it feels like to be in regret
So I will see all that time allows
 
Well I could stay and obey
But I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
I how it feels to behave
No I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
Chances are I’m gonna crash and burn it 
But fuck it oh well
Who will know if nobody ever goes?
Yeah, who'll know if nobody ever goes?
 
Well I could stay and obey
But I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
I how it feels to behave
No I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna know
Chances are I’m gonna crash and burn it 
But fuck it oh well
Who will know if nobody ever goes?
Yeah, who'll know if nobody ever goes?

Tell Em We Say Hi

IDWK

Self destruction in 3.......2........1.........

Michael Castle: Songwriting, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Production
Tim Jurasewicz: Drums
Artwork by Pretty Beggar

Lyrics: 
Well I don’t wanna go home
Can’t stand to be alone
Sitting rough all on my own
And no one calling on the phone
I just sit around and hit the suds
Yeah I just can't seem to get enough
Under these melancholy moons when my
Friends don't seem to come around much

So can I stay a little while?
Home is oh so many miles
I drive and I pretend to smile
Pride is aching all the while
C'mon just a, just a few minutes more
Or I could just crash here on the floor
Cause it's one of those days when my
My baby ain't needin no touch

So I'll go buy myself amends
When I know on em I depend
All the money that I spend
For my mind to let it bend
Ooh yeah I let it bend
Yeah I just can't seem to put an end
To my less reputable actions on
Days when my people don't poke they heads up
So I guess I'll just throw my hands up
Maybe it's time I gave up
Can't believe my bad luck

Well my left and my right is all twisted up 
My top and my bottom’s all spun about
The voices in my head give me the run around
And for all that I can do I can’t stop the sound

WELL WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!
I'm waking up out on the lawn
Dignity so long gone
Maybe I've been crazy all along
I’m just so goddamn sick of it all 
Yeah I just can’t seem to take a fall 
And make it look good 
On these days where my people don't come around much 

Sudsy

Hardest grooving ballad on the planet

Michael Castle: Songwriting, Piano, Vocals, Bass, Production
Tim Jurasewicz: Drums
Artwork by Pretty Beggar

Lyrics:
Well you can find me on the low, moseying slow, finger to the front lines,
Collar to the cold, shoes shuffling
And you can find me on the street, kickin with the freaks, under underpasses, 
Dreamin of the beach I ain't never saw

So if you see the world be sure to let me know if you ever figure it out
And I’ll be sure to let you know if I ever get it figured
Until then, I’ll be on the low

Well you can find me on the low, hidden in the flow, melancholy jazz, 
Setting tempo, shoes shuffling
Yeah you can find me at the hideout, kickin with the burnouts, hanging with the low-lifes, 
So that I can stand out, sort of

So be sure to let me know if you ever get it figured out
And I’ll be sure to let you know if I ever get it figured
Until then, I’ll be on the low

Well people we’ve got a problem, 
I don’t want to solve em, you don’t wanna solve em, they don’t wanna solve em
And that’s a fucking problem
I don’t want to solve em, you don’t wanna solve em, they don’t wanna solve em
That’s the fucking problem
I don’t want to solve em, you don’t wanna solve em, they don’t wanna solve em
This is a fucking problem

Well you can find me on the low, moseying slow, finger to the front lines,
Collar to the cold, shoes shuffling
Yeah you can find me at the hideout, kickin with the burnouts, hanging with the low-lifes, 
So that I can’t stand out, kind of

So be sure to let me know if you get it all figured out
And I’ll be sure to let you know if I ever get it figured
Until then, I’ll be on the low

On The Low

Oh the feel of an even keel

Michael Castle: Songwriting, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Production
Tim Jurasewicz: Drums
Artwork by Pretty Beggar

Lyrics: 
 Here I am, ready-made, but overworked, and underpaid
Got a fire, and a stoke, but I can't burn these oars, I gotta row

Well it's better that you know me
Better than I know myself
Cause I'ma jump it in with both feet 
And tomorrow I'ma need your help

Yeah I'm jumpin in with both feet
Honey can you spot me 
A dollar for your ever-ready heartbeat
Shot from a cannon
Reckless and abandoned
Comin’, but I'm comin’ empty handed

One-way, dead end, same thing, if you spend
Everyday, westbound, aw some day you're gonna drown

(chorus)

Well bum me a cigarette
And I’ll roll you a joint
Take me to the arcade
And I’ll steal you a satchel full of coins

Give me your word
And I will write you a verse
Then you’ll pen me a symphony
And honey I will reimburse

Give me your love (dolla foa dolla)

Come and pick me up
And I’ll throw you in the air
You’ll pull me to the clouds
And we’ll divide the view in equal shares

Say my name
And I’ll put yours in a song
Then you’ll write us a romance
A thousand pages long

(chorus)

dolla Foa dolla

Track 2 off of the Pretty Beggar sophomore album "Joy And The Pursuit Of"

Lyrics:

Well here I am splittin rent with my back alley baby 
But she's always holdin a grudge 
She said boy well one day you gon' drive me crazy 
And I'ma drag you through the mud 
Oh well 

Cos you know that I can't resist 
Makin a christmas peppermint twistmas outta this kiss 
Oh but when a man comes around preachin religion and vacant superstition 
And puts his hand in my pocket well I just give him my money 
Even if I don't have none 
Well I heard about something called a loan I'ma get me one 

Well everybody gets one chance to sit behind the candelabra 
And everybody wakes up each and every mornin a little bit taller 
So if you can't sit still or stick to all the drills they give you babe 
Go 'head and hop those fences and cut through the alleyways 

Well I know when to start 
But most of the time I don't know when to stop 
I'd take that candy from ya baby 
And put my knuckles to a cop 
Oh no 

Well everybody gets one chance and I'ma take mine tonight 
If I'ma leave the house then I'ma stay up til I see the light 
Wreak a little havoc on the city stage 
Hoppin those fences and cuttin through the alleyways

Joy And The Pursuit Of

Candelabra

3rd single off the Pretty Beggar sophomore album "Joy And The Pursuit Of"

Credits
released September 2, 2018 
Written by Michael Castle 
Produced by Michael Castle 
Engineered by Michael Castle 
Mixed and mastered by Michael Castle 
Artwork by Michael Castle 
(c) Pretty Beggar LLC

Lyrics:
Hey dad why do you spend every day giving away all of your time 
It seems to me, you could use it here to make a dime 
He said well son I grew up here beneath the sunshine every day 
I tended to my plants and never went the hungry way 
So I can give it way 
Until I see somebody's smiling face 

Well do you lend your shoes to the neighbor 
Help the man when he's got some labor 
Spread the well when your bills are paid up 
And give your son just a little paper 

He said well yeah 
It's The Island Way to be well to myself 
And anyone else needin help 
Do you wanna get used to it 
So I said yeah 
It's The Island Way to be well to myself 
And anyone else needin help 
I could make a good use of it 

Yeah but dad what happens when the world is laughing in your face 
Cos you didn't care to win a medal in the money race 
He said well son the secret I found is to live within yourself 
Just focus on your happiness and not your wealth 
So we can give it way 
Until we see somebody's smiling face 

And do you give a lesson to the young buck 
Get those business men to untuck 
Help a single mother keep up 
And work your butt to make your own luck 

He said well yeah 
It's The Island Way to be well to myself 
And anyone else needin help 
Do you wanna get used to it 
So I said yeah 
It's The Island Way to be well to myself 
And anyone else needin help 
I could make a good use of it 

So we give it away 

We give it away cos yeah 
It's The Island Way to be well to myself 
And anyone else needin help 
Do you wanna get used to it 
So I said yeah 
It's The Island Way to be well to myself 
And anyone else needin help 
I could really get used to it

The Island Way

Time Is Coming

5th single off the Pretty Beggar sophomore album "Joy And The Pursuit Of"

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Virginia Is For Lovers

A fun, upbeat, romantically optimistic duet about new beginnings

Something More Than Me

The 7th single off of Pretty Beggar's sophomore album "Joy And The Pursuit Of", "All Inna Day" is an upbeat acoustic pop story about silver linings

All Inna Day

Funky Blue Fish

9th single off of the Pretty Beggar sophomore album "Joy And The Pursuit Of"

Chili Pepper Chocolate

10th single off the Pretty Beggar sophomore album "Joy And The Pursuit Of"

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Written by Michael Castle
Produced by Michael Castle
Engineered by Michael Castle
Mixed and mastered by Michael Castle
Artwork by Michael Castle
(c) Pretty Beggar LLC

11th single off the Pretty Beggar sophomore album "Joy And The Pursuit Of"

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Written by Michael Castle
Produced by Michael Castle
Engineered by Michael Castle
Mixed and mastered by Michael Castle
Artwork by Michael Castle
(c) Pretty Beggar LLC

Rain

Indie Rock band out of Milwaukee WI led by band members Michael Castle and Tim Jurasewicz. Formed in January 2016 this group emphasizes lyrical potency and storytelling within catchy upbeat grooves.

Banner artwork by Big Shot Robot: www.bigshot-robot.com/

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