Marching To The We

**"Marching To The We"** is a song recorded by The Residents dating from "probably (the) late eighties, early nineties", during sessions related to their never-finished Mole Trilogy of albums. It is built around a melody previously heard in "Hole-Workers' New Hymn" (from 1981's *Mark of the Mole*) and "The New Hymn (Recessional)" (from the 1982 EP *Intermission*).

Under the joke title **"Marching To The Beach"**, it was first released June 29th 2008 as the final track in the Summer Tunes series of free MP3 releases on The Residents' official blog. The song first featured on an official Residents release in September 2011, when it was featured as the closing part of the *Mole Suite* EP, released digitally through the group's Robot Selling Device online music store.

The song's first release on a physical format was in 2019, when it was featured (under its proper title for the first time) on the sixth disc of the *Mole Box* pREServed CD box set, where it is said to be part of a sequence of tracks related to the never-completed Part Three of The Mole Trilogy. It is the only part of the *Mole Suite* included in the set.

## Lyrics

```
(Marching to the we, marching to the we
Marching to the we, we're marching to the we
Marching to the we, marching to the we
Marching to the we, we're marching to the we)

```

```
With you I can be helpless, safe and soft and warm
Living in a land of lives immunized from harm
I need a pair of perfect arms around my searching soul
To lead my mind along a path where everyone is told
Of all the magic make believe that no-one ever saw
And of the sugar-coated dream that infiltrates our thoughts
And makes our minds become so numb that no-one else exists
Except the world that we have made and filled with lovely gifts

```

```
(Marching to the we, marching to the we
Marching to the we, we're marching to the we
Marching to the we, marching to the we
Marching to the we, we're marching to the we)

```

```
And if this very tale cannot exist as perfectly
As what we might desire, well then, perhaps occasionally
We'll find a friend that stood beside us smiling silently
And held our hand in hope when we were marching to the we

```

## List of releases

* Summer Tunes (2008)
* *Mole Suite* EP (2011)
* *Mole Box: The Complete Mole Trilogy pREServed* (2019)

## See also

* The Mole Trilogy
* *Part Three of The Mole Trilogy*
* Summer Tunes
* *Mole Suite*
* *Mole Box*
* "Migration"
* "The New Hymn"

## External links and references

* *Mole Suite* at Discogs
* *Mole Box: The Complete Mole Trilogy pREServed* at Discogs

1. ↑ "Age unknown, but probably late Eighties, early Nineties." Big Brother, *Mole Suite* release notes, Robot Selling Device, 2011

**Cast of Characters**
Mohelmot · Chubs (Innisfree · The Scientist) · The ObserverDarkness · The Evil DisposerCross (Zinkenites · Kula Bocca · The Big Bubble · Frankie DuVall)
**Part One: *Mark of the Mole* (1981)**
(video game · novel)
**Side A: Hole-Workers at the Mercy of Nature**
"Voices of the Air" · "The Ultimate Disaster" · "Migration"
**Side B: Hole-Workers vs. Man and Machine**
"Another Land" · "The New Machine" · "Final Confrontation"
**Part Two: *The Tunes of Two Cities* (1982)**
(*The Comix of Two Cities*)
**Side A:** "Serenade For Missy" · "A Maze Of Jigsaws" · "Mousetrap" · "God Of Darkness" · "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)" · "Praise For The Curse"
**Side B:** "The Secret Seed" · "Smokebeams" · "Mourning The Undead" · "Song Of The Wild" · "The Evil Disposer" · "Happy Home (Excerpt From Act II of "Innisfree")"
***Intermission: Extraneous Music From The Residents' Mole Show* (1982)**
**Side A:** "Lights Out (Prelude)" · "Shorty's Lament (Intermission)"
**Side B:** "The Moles Are Coming (Intermission)" · "Would We Be Alive? (Intermission)" · "The New Hymn (Recessional)"
**The Mole Show (1982-1983)**(*Mole Dance 82* · *Live At The Roxy* · *La Edad de Oro* · Uncle Sam Mole Show · VHS · *Live In Holland* · DVD bag set)
**Part Three: ???**
"Now It Is Too Late" · "Going Nowhere" · "Tired Old Man" · "**Marching To The We**" · *Mole Suite*
**Part Four: *The Big Bubble* (1985)**(fictional band · Black Shroud Records)
**Side A:** "Sorry" · "Hop A Little" · "Go Where Ya Wanna Go" · "Gotta Gotta Get" · "Cry For The Fire"
**Side B:** "Die-Stay-Go" · "Vinegar" · "Firefly" · "The Big Bubble" · "Fear for the Future" · "Kula Bocca Says So"
**Part Five: ???**
**Part Six: ???**
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