Last Commands of Xyralothep Via MES

Locus   (1)
Beware characters connected with car adverts (2)
Real, assumed or imaginary
The vocal testament of M.E.S.
Coming from the little town of Speck Marsden (3)
1. Cash - the eternal fork out
To keep everything normal is well beyond the capacity
All monies will try and escape thee
Beware of thy lazy right hand 
This is the focal of M.E.S. locus and Xyralothep (4)
Avoid respectable television and respectable newspapers
They have neither the talent of art
Or the instinctive snout of the media
2. Deploreth thy real god
He mutters incomprehensibly
Still on job one
With alloys
The calibrator (5)
In a cave not yet invented or constructed
This is your vessel M.E.S.
From he to you
This one M.E.S. procured
Mountain's waters blocked by dormant tree
See later on this LP (6)
6. Avoid fat aggressive men and handsome aggressive men  (7)
In conflict they disappear overnight with bad backs
7. Cod-science/cod-psychology is to be avoided
But do not make your enig-noise public
As it will bring the wrath of the drude quarters (8)

1. "Locus" was the original working title of the song, as it appeared on 2003 set lists (thanks to Zack). According to an interview with Ben Pritchard, Dave Milner (who is indeed credited!) originally titled it "Locust," but this is likely to be a case of an interviewer hearing him wrong (see the comments below).
The song is a sort of list of advice, and formally resembles Max Ehrmann's "Desiderata" (see note 7 below).

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2. "Touch Sensitive" was used in a Vauxhall automobile commercial, and MES has claimed he wasn't paid.

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3. There are three towns in England called Marsden. The one in West Yorkshire is quite close to Manchester. Since the towns are small, "speck" could somewhat plausibly be appended. If so, then this is probably at the same time a somewhat more covert reference to Spencer Marsden (Spec. Marsden), who co-wrote "Mad.Men-Eng.Dog." from The Marshall Suite, and who appeared on an obscure single track called "Fistful of Credits" with MES as "Mildmanjan" (thanks to Fit and Working Again).

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4. The name is reminiscent of "Nyarlathotep," otherwise known as "The Crawling Chaos," a sinister deity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. He is sometimes said to resemble an Egyptian Pharoah, and the suffix "-hotep," which means "to be at peace," is found in numerous ancient Egyptian names. Another example of a lyric substituting an 'X' for an expected letter is "Mike's Love Xexagon," also on The Real New Fall LP.

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5. WIlliam Blake's demiurge "Urizen," a wintry sky god who is often interpreted as representing calculating reason in abstraction from the other faculties (particularly the imagination), is portrayed, in Blake's painting "The Ancient of Days," as gripping a compass with which he measures something at his feet. In an illustration from The Book of Urizen, he is depicted in a cave writing in the book of the law, as described by David Erdman in The Illuminated Blake: "He is writing secrets and commandments, but his copy book is enrooting; the closed books in which he is transcribing may be seen as a single coffin lid; the Mosaic tablets at his back (where the proverb-communicating Devil of Marriage 10 has living wings) suggest a double tombstone: are both Testaments stony to Urizen." Caves in Blake, as in Plato's famous fable, often seem to indicate cognitive limitation, although in Blake's case it is imaginative vision that is bloked by the walls rather than, as in the most common reading of Plato, rational understanding. 

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6. A reference to "Mountain Energei," which wound up being placed earlier on the LP.

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7. nil70 submits "This sounds like a nod to Max Ehrmann’s 'Desiderata':

'Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.'"

"Desiderata" is a prose poem Ehrmann, full of advice for living like "Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth." This song is formally quite similar to "Desiderata," then, and could even plausibly be seen to be lampooning it a little, as one would imagine it skews a bit platitudinous for MES's sensibilities...

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8. From the Lyrics Parade: "This could be a response to Julian Cope (who refers to himself as the "arch-drude"), who commented on his website: "...you hear that new Fall record and it's just more embittered semi-mystical coded fraudulent ramblings about NOTHING nothing NOTHING." (editor's interpretation, which may well be completely wrong!)"  

This actually seems very plausible, considering the "enig-noise" line. 

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