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I'm With You (Ruth and Naomi)

By Nichole Nordeman

785 views Sep 14, 2026 updated Music Inspired By The Story album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Nichole Nordeman opens with loss described almost like weather — "love is a hurricane in a blue sky," arriving without warning and washing away "all the laughter and the dreams." The second verse turns the same idea into famine: beauty she thought she'd planted that "would never grow," leaving her "on her hands and knees."

Against that wreckage, she offers the plainest promise the song has: "where you go, I'll go too... I won't let you feel alone." It's not advice or a fix for the hurricane — it's presence, someone choosing to stay through a collapse instead of grief.

Nordeman lifts that vow almost word for word from Ruth's declaration to Naomi in Ruth 1:16-17, one of Scripture's clearest pictures of loyal love refusing to walk away from someone else's devastation. The song's quiet final line makes the source explicit — "in the way you always love me, I remember He does too" — turning a human promise into a reflection of a much older one.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Verse 1]

Love is a hurricane in a blue sky

I didn't see it coming, never knew why

All the laughter and the dreams

All the memories in between

Washed away in a steady stream


[Verse 2]

Love is a hunger, a famine in your soul

I thought I planted beauty, but it would never grow

Now I'm on my hands and knees

Trying to gather up my dreams

Trying to hold on to anything


[Verse 3]

And we could shake a fist

In times like this

When we don't understand

Or we could just hold hands


[Chorus]

You and me, me and you

Where you go, I'll go too

I'm with you, I'm with you

Until your heart, finds a home

I won't let you feel alone

I'm with you, I'm with you

With you


[Verse 4]

You do your best to build a higher wall

To keep love safe from any wrecking ball

When the dust has cleared, we will

See the house that Love rebuilds

Guarding beauty that lives here still


[Chorus]

It's you and me, me and you

Where you go, I'll go too

I'm with you, I'm with you

Until your heart, finds a home

I won't let you feel alone

I'm with you, I'm with you


[Verse 5]

Who can say I'm left with nothing

When I have all of you, all of you, yeah

In the way you always love me

I remember He does too


[Chorus]

It's you and me, me and you

Where you go, I'll go too

I'm with you, I'm with you

Until your heart, finds a home

I won't let you feel alone

I'm with you, I'm with you

It's you and me, me and you

Where you go, I'll go too

I'm with you, I'm with you

Until your heart, finds a home

I won't let you feel alone

I'm with you, I'm with you

With you

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