19 - Josh James Music

Track 9 – “Words Can’t Say” – Behind the Song

Posted on January 19, 2025December 29, 2024 by Josh James

My wife and I started dating in 2002, and I wrote this song for her within the first year after that. It was the first time I realized why all those clichés about love exist--things that make you roll your eyes when someone else is talking about them. But if I were pressed to talk about how she...

Track 7 – “Someone New” – Behind the Song

Posted on January 12, 2025December 29, 2024 by Josh James

I first wrote this song in 2001/2002, around the same time as Photograph. These two were the first songs I ever copyrighted, but Photograph usually got more attention. As old as Someone New is, it hasn't changed very much from that first version. Even the guitar solo is almost note-for-note the...

Track 6 – “I Know” – Behind the Song

Posted on January 4, 2025January 5, 2025 by Josh James

I initially wrote the music for this one in about 2001, but a friend of mine had written lyrics for it. Through the years I have rewritten lyrics to it a handful of times, but it never seemed right. It usually came off as a cheesy love song. It wasn't until I was wrapping up Objects in Mirror that...