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
I promise you we will win
If not tomorrow
Then the day after that
Or the day after that."