Will T. Massey is an amazing singer-songwriter. He is also my cousin and he struggles with schizophrenia.
I have written many posts about Will through the years, including this piece about the last time I saw Will in December 2016. Though he has disappeared back into the woodwork, his powerful and intensely personal songs remain.
Here are the various songs of Will’s that I have posted to the blog with transcribed lyrics and video and/or audio recordings. The songs cover a lot of territory, from his earliest independent cassette releases to his later songs, both released and unreleased.
Early songs from Will T. Massey include tunes from Pickin’, Poker, and Pick-Up Trucks, Kickin’ Up Dust, and Slow Study, released before he signed with MCA and the well-known eponymous first album, Will T. Massey. Several songs listed here were previously unreleased.
Pickin’, Poker, and Pick-Up Trucks
Kickin’ Up Dust
- Then The Lone Star Will Stop Shining
- Hard Working Man
- Half as Lonely
- Cost of Living
- The Dark Side of a Dream
- Fading Away Like My Jeans (co-written by Mark Luke Daniels)
- Waltz Across My Mind (co-written by Mark Luke Daniels)
- That’s Texas
- Road of Roses
Slow Study
- See You Around
- Homeless Heart
- The Hell You Raised
- Highway Hearse
- Slow Study
- Long Distance Love (co-written by Peg Miller)
- I’ll Be Gone
- Closin’ Down My Heart (Last One to Leave)
- A Dying Breed
- The Road That Brought Us Here (CD bonus track)
- Mr. Johnson’s Store
Chicago House “Slow Study” CD release party — 9-9-89
- What Heaven’s Worth
- My Old 64
- Mama Never Liked Traveling Songs
- Waiting On You (co-written by Rosie Flores)
Will T. Massey (MCA)
- I Ain’t Here
- Send Up the Smoke
- It’s Midnight All Day Long
- You Take the Town
- Barbed Wire Town
- Coffee Break
- The Bravery to Weep
- A Summertime Graveyard
Post-MCA material
Will’s other songs that I have posted come from much later, spanning his recordings and performances from 2005-2016. Some of theses songs appear on albums released during that time: Letters in the Wind, Wayward Lady USA, and The Weathering. Several of these are previously unreleased, or only released in limited editions.
Letters in the Wind
Wayward Lady, U.S.A.
- A Soldier’s Love (Bring ‘Em Home)
- My American Prayer
- Wayward Lady, U.S.A.
- You Work for Me, Mr. President
- Peace Train
Private CD prerelease
iPhone
- A Little Bit of a Heartbreaker
- Broken Heart for You
- The Old Crazy Goat
- Playing Hurt
- Roses as You Go
- Drinking for Two
- The Darkness Now
- Cry Home
The Weathering
- Haunted Eyes
- Sometimes I Sing
- Weird Again
- Poor Girls
- That Isn’t Me Any More
- A Heartbreak Away
- Once Upon Forever
- Out of This World
- The Remembering
- Drunken Cupid
- The Weathering
Live recording
- I Can See Heaven From Here
- Always Working
- High Rollers, Roll My Way
- I Will Take the Wheel
- Goodbye
- The Great Beyond Near
- Hardest Mile
- Always Saying Goodbye
- Last Lover’s Waltz
- The Moon’s Got the Blues Tonight
- I Forgive You, God
- Got to Be All Right
- Long Lonesome Look
- A Little Bit of a Heartbreaker
Soundcloud account
Incomplete/incorrect lyrics
I will continue to add to this list on a regular basis, as I want to make sure that Will’s amazing legacy of song does not fade away.