''WWF Tough Enough 2'' is a

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of music related to

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series of the same name.

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's "Gone Away" served as the album's

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with a popular

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released in mid-April 2002. According to a label spokesperson mere weeks before the album's release, ''WWF'' ''Tough Enough 2'' was originally to include a track by

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. Despite the inclusion of the “WWE” logo on the album cover, the spine on the CD case labels this as a "WWF" release. This is because a week prior to the album's release, WWE had changed its name from "WWF" following a trademark dispute with the

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(WWF). The album had already been cataloged as a "WWF" release by Geffen. The album remains listed as a legacy "WWF" release on digital music services.

"Gone Away"

The album's single, a moody

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, was originally written for Cold vocalist

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's daughter Raven. It focuses on missing family while being on the road and traveling to performances, a necessary evil in both music and

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. Regarding the song's addition to the ''Tough Enough 2'' album, Ward said: :"Leaving home all the time, never being here because we were on the road — I thought that restlersmust feel the same way because they travel a lot. They leave their family and all that, so I figured I'd just send hat I was working onto them, thinking they'd never pick it up, but they did." The song's music video was credited as from Cold's then-forthcoming album ''

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'', which wouldn't be released until a year later. Two videos were made, the original having been shot in March 2002 in the group's hometown of

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, by director Paul Boyd. In it, the daughter is seen on one of three giant projection screens as Cold perform in a plush, empty theater while fans are projected on the other screens. The audience, some of which traveled from

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to be cast into the video, was also treated to a few other Cold songs at the small venue.D'Angelo, Joe and Cooper, Amy V
"Cold Singer Relates To Road-Weary Wrestlers"

.com (April 4, 2002). Retrieved on June 18, 2008.

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"Gone Away"

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