When Liza Minnelli heard the song "The Day After That" at a performance of the Tony Award-winning musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman," she knew it had special meaning for AIDS victims.

So with the blessing of the American Foundation for AIDS Research and songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb, she will record "The Day After That" for a video to be introduced on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1.The words of the song, sung by an imprisoned South American revolutionary in the musical, were meant to be political, but Minnelli said they also express "the hope and the fighting against despair" felt by AIDS patients.

They read:

"And the world that gives us pain

That fills our lives with fear

On the day after that

Will disappear

And the war we've fought to win

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I promise you we will win

If not tomorrow

Then the day after that

Or the day after that."

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