this is the room where they were born all of the kids grown up so long now and if i m quiet i can hear them fight the only real sound is that whistling train at night it s the only thing that has stayed the same the lonely whine of a new york train used to hear it coming for me in dreams but now it just sings me to sleep it seems i can hear a wrecking ball coming for the house see a wrecking ball gonna tear it down in this kitchen we would laugh and sing now i eat alone at burger king my wife used to come home and cook the meals now my daughter comes weekly to feed me pills i can hear a wrecking ball coming for the house see a wrecking ball gonna tear it down i can hear a wrecking ball coming for the house see a wrecking ball gonna tear it down used to run through fields to put pennies on the track now it s just big houses with pools out back they ll bulldoze this house when i am gone and no one will be here to sing that old train song i can hear a wrecking ball coming for the house see a wrecking ball gonna tear it down i can hear a wrecking ball coming for the house see a wrecking ball gonna tear it down i can hear a wrecking ball coming for the house see a wrecking ball gonna tear it down  