In the song, he describes what Tisha B'av will be like after Moshiach arrives.
I came across another song today, completely by accident, which I had not heard in many years, but it brought me to tears when I listened to it. The song was released 18 years ago, yet the emotion of the song and its equally powerful lyrics could very well have been made this year, during the height of this pandemic. Although I've heard the song many times in the past, the tune is still as fresh as ever. The song never garnered its deserved attention when it was released, and I really think a savvy singer should release it again, today, and it will take the world by storm.
The song is the title track of Sruli Ginsberg's second album, Az Yiboka. As a singer, he had his moment of fame after his debut album, due to the Pinky-Weber-composed title track, Aneini, which was later sung by Shwekey on a B'hisorerus. His second album gained almost no following, although one of the songs on it, Heima, composed by Lipa, became a worldwide sensation when Avrohom Fried released it a decade later on his album Keep Climbing.
Az Yiboka is as beautiful and as soulful as any song I've heard. Composed by Israeli rosh yeshiva Rabbi Hillel Paley, the song's three parts each contain a beauty and a complexity that is breathtaking. Although I always understood the words to be a message of yearning for Moshiach, I never noticed until tonight that the focus of the song is on the cholei Yisroel.
The message of the song has never been more apt and timely as it is now.
This song deserves a comeback, and I think it can really give chizuk to people nowadays. I wish I could influence a singer to release this as a single, so that it can become a meaningful tefillah for those davening for cholim.
I don't know singers, but the least I could do is post it here and urge my fellow DDFers to check it out. Maybe you, too, will hear in it what I heard.
link to song