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Time to wonder
Bury zero seven seven (3)
Fifty-eight
Driver B
Released Albion 
Late to reclaim (4)

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See
SNRP (5)

To think about more
Plants
And more time to wonder
Where more gas and food is coming from

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Big Dave is omnipresent in Trafalgar (6)

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St. Gabriel's medical centre (7)
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Get free calls for a year
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Reclaimed in the Lord

1. This opens with a chant that in its cadence is reminscent of "Guest Informant." As compared to that number, on the other hand, the music is both funkier and statelier, making it one of the Fall's more anthemic efforts. A "Senior Twilight Stock Replacer" would seem to be a store employee who stocks shelves on the evening shift. In an August 2018 interview with Perfect Sound Forever, Dave Spurr explains the title: 

"I've a couple of favourites on Imperial Wax Solvent. One that makes me smile is 'Senior Twilight Stock Replacer.' A friend of mine used to wash dishes in a restaurant and to make his job title sound a little more important, he told everyone that he was a 'Sub Aqua Ceramics Operative.' In between Fall gigs in the early days, I worked night shifts at a large hardware superstore, so I decided to steal my friend's idea and told everyone I was a 'Senior Twilight Stock Replenishing Technician.' It's damn near impossible to fit all that into a chorus, so it got shortened to 'Senior Twilight Stock Replacer' and the riff to the song was born!

Incidentally, Google turns up a surprising number of queries about such a job at places like Tesco (a British grocery chain), but none of them seem to be serious and, tellingly, none seem to predate the release of Imperial Wax Solvent. 

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2. MES's vocal comes in on this line, and, puzzlingly, it is mixed very loud while the whole rest of the track simultaneously dips in volume, which gives a synthetic and disjointed feel to the song at this point. Like the interjections on "Can Can Summer," this seems an ill-conceived move that sabotages the track a bit. 

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3. There seems to be a row of stores at this address, which may be where stock is being replaced. 

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4. These lines vaguely suggest some sort of wholesale transactions are occurring; "Albion" is an old name for the isles of Britain and is still sometimes used in that sense.

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5. No, I don't know do you? SeNior RePlacer?

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6.Big Dave Spurr, the bass player, I suppose. Trafalgar Square in London?

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7. St. Gabriel's is in MES's home town of Prestwich.

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