Yeh ishq bhi ajeeb hai
Kabhi saccha kabhi jhooṭa
Donon taraf se mann mera mann tera looṭa

The song Sb Maaya Hai catches attention with its generous understanding that love essentially remains armed with its characteristic capability to devastate whether or not it’s ‘true’. With it’s rather surprising opening, it calls into question the conventional connotations of ‘true’ and ‘false’ love, tacitly implying that they are but meaningless, irrelevant adjectives that don’t and can’t dampen the severity and vulnerability called love. The song might come as strangely uplifting to anyone who has ever engaged in a love that didn’t eventually turn out to be the ‘ultimate’, and hence what’s conventionally known to be ‘true’, love. The importance placed on the singularity of the beloved in the journey of True Love is perhaps overamplified; love can still be true (or if we discard the meaningless adjective, love can still be love) if each beloved is thought of as a step in a thousand miles journey, a moment in an infinity, a vanishing mirage giving way to a new one in a distance, along the same path.

I like to think I haven’t overanalyzed the lyrics. Here’s the link to Coke Studio’s version of the song:

https://soundcloud.com/cokestudio/attaullahesakhevi-sanwalesakhelvi-sabmayahai