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"Marching To The We" is a song recorded by The Residents dating from "probably (the) late eighties, early nineties",[1] 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 cream 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 fairytale 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[]
- ↑ "Age unknown, but probably late Eighties, early Nineties." Big Brother, Mole Suite release notes, Robot Selling Device, 2011
