Storm Lyrics – Ruth B.

Ruth B. breaks the silence after four long years with Storm, her gut-wrenching new single out November 12 via ALTER Music, and it rolls in like the downpour you didn’t see coming, that desperate call echoing over crashing waves of regret.

If you’ve followed Ruth since those piano confessions lit up the charts, you know she has a gift for turning quiet pain into something you feel in your bones. Storm feels like her reclaiming that space, written in the thick of processing a love that soured from rock-solid to storm-tossed. It’s all there in the lyrics: the innocence of “me and you” promises giving way to thunderous fights, wondering if voices can cut through the chaos or if it’s all just rain now. The sound leans into her roots as a pianist, starting sparse with those haunting keys that build into a swell of alternative R&B strings and subtle percussion, soulful but cinematic, like a movie scene you live inside.

She directed the vibe toward something self-assured, her voice raw and layered just enough to mimic the storm’s pull—hopeful one second, heartbroken the next. No big collabs here, just Ruth and producer Sara Thea handling the video too, which dropped alongside and already has that misty, windswept aesthetic tying the visuals to the ache.

This one’s a standalone for now, her first solo drop since 2021’s Moments, signaling a fresh chapter after label shifts and life pulling her in new directions. At 30, the Ethiopian-Canadian songwriter behind Lost Boy and Dandelions is stepping out stronger, trading some of the fairy-tale whimsy for adult reckonings that hit harder. She’s been quiet on the music front, focusing on family and healing, but this return feels earned—like she’s surfacing from her own tempest, ready to let the world hear the calm after.