Cover art for Predictions by Suzanne Vega
Apr. 17, 19901 viewer

Predictions Lyrics

[Chorus]
A suspended ring or the mode of laughing
Pebbles drawn from a heap
One of these things
Will tell you something

[Verse 1]
Let's tell the future
Let's see how it's been done
By numbers, by mirrors, by water
By dots made at random on paper
By salt, by dice
By meal, by mice
By dough of cakes
By sacrificial fire
By fountains, by fishes
Writings in ashes
Birds, herbs
Smoke from the altar

[Outro]
Let's tell the future
Let's see how it's been done
Let's see how it's been done
Let's see how it's been done

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A song about different methods of divination.

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Credits
Acoustic Guitar
Bass drum
E-Bow Guitar
Electric Guitar
Percussion
Synthesizer
Tom Tom [Floor Tom]
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Release Date
April 17, 1990
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