Lyric discussion by Gypsy Davey 

Cover art for Marionette lyrics by Mott The Hoople

If you listen to the live recording at a Broadway theatre in May 1974 (on Shades Of Ian Hunter) there's a kind of shocked pause at the end before a few of the audience started clapping. Clearly an end of an era song, like Bowie at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973 or Dylan in Manchester in 1966 when he went electric!