I've been hitting my heart with a wrecking ball Brick by brick, wall by wall 'Til every little bit of your memory falls Down in a cloud of dust And I won't quit 'til the love we've known Is twisted steel and broken stone Like it never lived, like it never was This is the demolition of us Built it up over time Higher than the roof on a huge skyscraper Full of love, full of life Never thought of you as a cruel heartbreaker But you did what you did So I do what I do And if I chip away, every day Oh, then maybe I'll finally get rid of you I've been hitting my heart with a wrecking ball Brick by brick, wall by wall 'Til every little bit of your memory falls Down in a cloud of dust And I won't quit 'til the love we've known Is twisted steel and broken stone Like it never lived, like it never was This is the demolition of us But you did what you did So I do what I do And if I chip away, every day Until you're just somebody I never knew I keep hitting my heart with a wrecking ball Brick by brick, wall by wall 'Til every little bit of your memory falls Down in a cloud of dust And I won't quit 'til the love we've known Is twisted steel and broken stone Like it never lived, like it never was This is the demolition of us (Hit my heart with a wrecking ball) This is the demolition of us (Brick by brick, wall by wall) Oh, the demolition of us (Twisted steel, broken stone) Yeah, the demolition of us (Hit my heart with a wrecking ball) Yeah, the demolition of us (Brick by brick, wall by wall) Yeah, the demolition of us (Brick by brick) Oh yeah (Wall by wall) The demolition of us