On the occasion of the release of her new album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.
One pig, invoked to taunt the narrator as an infant
One mosquito, “to kiss your hands and feet”
One possibly imaginary centipede
Four swans
One cheetah
One blackbird, “fryin’ on a wire”
Two bees
Six wolves
One crow, beating its wings ominously
One coyote
One oneiric deer, bleeding out over a dream highway
Two foxes, Russian-folklore-inspired
One locust, one frog and one snake, all plaguing John the Baptist
One lion
Five cats
Six sparrows, all dead, after failing to heed the narrator’s warning
One hawk
Two hawks
One greyhound, albeit in reference to the bus company, although Case also owns several rescued dogs of the same name
One owl
One elephant, which the singer sharply observes is said to never forget, even in a cage
One “killer” whale (she would probably insist on the quotation marks)
One shark
20 dogs, including one that got its start haunting Hank Williams
Two spiders
Two magpies
One vulture
Untold dozens of spring peepers, chirping throughout the ambient half-hour of “Marais La Nuit”
One mockingbird
Two whippoorwills
One moth
Two ants, representing many, “prisoners of their destination”
Three doves
One firefly
One ferret
One gopher (the ferret is eating them)
One mollusk, busily destroying Washington State’s ecosystem
Two generic birds, minus genus
One monkey
One catfish, which has “stripped off your hide”
One sphinx
Enough men to fill their own zoo, if she supported zoos, although in this case Case might make an exception
