Cashavelly’s Meditation Through Gunfire is a moving anthem that bridges raw personal truth with the universal urgency to care for nature. Born from a night of deep reflection in January 2022, this song channels the artist’s journey through despair toward liberation, a journey anchored in the powerful voice of Mother Earth.
With this song, Cashavelly draws inextricable similarities between the exploitation of the Earth and the systemic oppression of women, presenting the song as a lament and a rallying cry.
The lyrics are direct and unadorned. Lines like, “These men think that they can be whole without the Mother / who they fuck, leave, repress, then replace with another,” confirm this while simultaneously confronting social dynamics head-on, exposing entitlement and the destruction inflicted on the Earth and women alike.
Cashavelly claims that women’s intuition, often dismissed in a patriarchal society, is a profound and untapped power. As the source of life, women hold the potential to channel collective consciousness. According to the artist, while Western culture denies this due to the lack of scientific evidence, history shows that what is now explainable was once seen as magic.
Musically, Meditation Through Gunfire reflects calm and reclamation at once, while Cashavelly’s performance feels intimate yet commanding. Her voice coated in both vulnerability and rage echoes the Mother’s cry for justice. Cashavelly has described the song as a message channeled from a collective consciousness, reaffirming her faith in this intuitive power.
Earth, like the women who nurture and create it, yearns for reciprocity and love. The song’s references to cracked soil, starving rivers, and abandoned ecosystems paint a bleak landscape of humanity’s abandonment.