The concept of far away Makes mundane into magnificence If you look at the streets All decrepit ghost of buildings ****** up and built With soul and gone The new and commercialized With none; a soul at all The smoke and vices And roads filled with trash And lost dreams We see the city for What it is Ugly But on top of a view So high, overlooking The metro we are amazed By the unexpected splendor Of the otherwise routine and realize that Detachment makes things beautiful