The lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much

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Don Juan by the Pet Shop Boys begins thusly:

The man who's escorting Don Juan to his bride
Knows he is courting an impudent pride
Think of his jealousy, oh, where will he hide?
The man who's escorting Don Juan to his bride

The man who will cover for Don Juan's old soothsayer
Films for a Warner brother or Mister Goldwyn-Mayer
Think of his starlet, how much will he pay her?
The man who will cover for Don Juan's old soothsayer

Seems reasonably descriptive. The chorus:

An impasse has been reached with the teacher of the rich
To quit would be discreet and swift
But you know that I can't do that
It would be a disaster
It would be a disaster

I've got this sinking feeling, I'm not dreaming
We'll be sorry soon

Could be the thoughts of the man escorting Don Juan, assuming he's not entirely hypothetical, though I'm not sure about the first line. Finally:

At the end of the day, when everyone's resigned
To the heart of the matter and the measures in mind
King Zog's back from holiday, Mary Lupescu's grey
And King Alexander is dead in Marseilles

King Zog was the King of Albania; his holiday could be his jet-setting before settling in France (perhaps). Mary Lupescu is probably Magda Lupescu, mistress of the King of Romania and King Alexander was Yugoslavia and was assassinated by a Macedonian nationalist in Marseille in 1934. So this seems to be setting the place to the Balkans and the time to the end of the monarchies there (i.e. after the communist takeover of eastern europe). But what's this got to do with the foregoing?

So anyone got any more definite ideas?