alternative rock
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group
Live
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Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film
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Music
*Live (band), American alternative rock band
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, released in 2001. Originally written by frontman
Ed Kowalczyk
Edward Joel Kowalczyk (; born July 16, 1971)"Edward Kowalczyk IMDb entry" '' and producer
Glen Ballard
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for the film '' The Mummy Returns'', the song was eventually included in the band's album '' V''. Radioactive Records had no intent of making a single out of "Forever May Not Be Long Enough", at most recording a music video featuring the band performing the song in an ancient
Egypt
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ian setting, interspersed with footage from ''The Mummy Returns''. It still wound up receiving a CD single in Europe, charting in
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(#18) and
The Netherlands
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Ultratop
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'' The song was also included in the trailer for the
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game of the same name.
Music Video
The music video for the single was shows the band performing on a platform in front of an Egyptian stone temple with female dancers wearing Egyptian model attire. Other locations include the band members on a flat landscape around Egypt. The video also features clips from the movie itself.
Track listing
European CD single
#"Forever May Not Be Long Enough" (
Ed Kowalczyk
Edward Joel Kowalczyk (; born July 16, 1971)"Edward Kowalczyk IMDb entry" '',
Glen Ballard
Basil Glen Ballard Jr. (born May 1, 1953) is an American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer. He is best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's 1995 album ''Jagged Little Pill'', which won Grammy Awards for Grammy Award fo ...
) – 3:49
#"Overcome" (Live from Philadelphia) (Kowalczyk) – 4:23
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