I wonder, would people pick over an episode of East Enders in such a way? For sure the same emotional charge empowers both, but the response to such dramatic narrative is just as immediate & gut-felt without the need to subject it to any level of analysis beyond our innate appreciation of the complexity of human behaviour and why that should be. The guy's just found his wife fucking someone else for Christ's sake - how would any of us react in such a situation? Lord Barnard's no monster, certainly no more than Phil Mitchell anyway, who in no way is so one-dimensional as to make things so simple. Fact is, the song deals with a circumstance transcending the rights and wrongs of sexual morality, as such circumstances invariably do; the tragedy is all the more appalling because there is no one to blame here.