Lying Anyway Lyrics – Prem Dhillon (Feat. Rupinder Handa)

The Song Title

You know, the title “Lying Anyway“… it’s so brutally straightforward, but it frames everything. It’s not about lying to someone else, not really. It’s that moment you catch yourself in a story you’re telling, and you just keep going. You commit to the lie because the truth is too heavy to lift out into the open. The whole song feels like that internal sigh, that quiet resignation where the lie isn’t even for an audience anymore, it’s just the easier space to live in.

Most Impactful Lines

Okay, but the lines that just wreck me every time are right at the start. “Bacche soorja nu manni baithe aapna, neegah deeveyan te maari hi nahi.” It translates to something like, we children started worshipping the sun as our own, and didn’t even cast a glance at the little lamps. That’s the whole punch of it, you know? It’s this profound admission of how we get lost chasing the huge, dazzling, impossible things—the sun, these grand ideals or people—and we completely ignore the smaller, closer sources of light that are actually within reach, that could actually sustain us. We choose the blinding chase over the gentle glow. And then he says, “Assi sacheyaan naal russde rahe, te jhoothe nu mana baithe aa.” We keep getting angry with the truthful ones, and we just keep appeasing the liars. That’s the human condition in a nutshell, right there. We punish honesty for disturbing our fragile peace.

Decoding The Chorus

So the chorus, everyone sings it, it’s so catchy. But listen to what he’s actually saying, line by line. “Ho geya sawera taareyaan nu ginde” – Dawn has arrived, and the stars are fading. That’s the setup: a new day, a change, something beautiful is happening. But the next line, “te assi chann hi gawa baithhe aa” – and here we are, having lost the moon itself. Wait, what? If the stars are fading because the sun is rising, that’s natural. But losing the moon? That’s a catastrophic personal failure. We were so distracted, or so careless, we lost the biggest, steadiest night-time light we had. Then the twist: “Chaann je gawa leya ee koi gall nahi, main layi taareyaan nu tuttano bachaa.” If I’ve lost the moon, it’s no big deal, for me, saving the stars from breaking was the priority. This is where it kills me. He’s saying he was so busy trying to protect these fragile, distant, already-fading little lights—maybe his own shattered hopes, these little dreams—that he let the whole, solid, beautiful moon slip away. And he’s telling himself it was worth it. That’s the lie. That’s the “lying anyway.”

Most Relatable Part

The most brutally relatable heart of it for me is that line about getting angry with the truthful ones. God, I’ve been there. When someone holds up a mirror and you just… can’t look. You get mad at them for the reflection, not at yourself for what you see. That defensive, prickly feeling when your own compromises are pointed out, it’s so much easier to shut that person out than to face the music. The song is steeped in that fatigue, of knowing you’re on the wrong path but being too deep in to turn back, so you just… keep narrating the wrong path as if it’s the right one.

Conclusion & Overall Message

In the end, the takeaway isn’t some grand lesson. It’s a mood. It’s the emotional residue of choosing your own fiction over a reality that’s too costly to confront. The final note is that quiet, defeated, but almost comfortable repetition of the chorus. We’re sitting there, dawn is breaking, we’ve lost everything that truly mattered, and we’re just… explaining it away. To ourselves. The masterpiece is in how it makes that sad, stubborn act of self-deception feel not villainous, but human. We’re not heroes in our own story here, we’re just survivors, clutching broken stars and telling ourselves it was the best we could do.