The train bell was recorded with a Sony microcassette recorder where the tracks cross William Street, just south of York St., in London, Ontario on April 18th, 2009. There was some sort of malfunction and the bell was stuck ringing for something like five or ten minutes, with no [bad word] from either direction. 
An early version of the song was recorded on October 13th, 2010, but the current version was finished on January 14th, 2011. 
I used Jessiah's classical guitar, my Hammond organ, and the piano. The bell was looped with my Boss RC-20XL and manipulated with [bad word] for the intro.

lyrics
you used to shake the ground 
and the walls around my house 
but i [bad word] in the sound 

and though you're just as loud 
i barely hear you now 
you're like the train behind my house 

i used to kiss the ground 
you walked behind my house 
but now there's dust in my mouth 

i used to know your word 
believed the things i'd heard 
but sometimes, lord, it seems absurd 

take off your shoes 
this is holy ground 
take off your shoes 
and walk [bad word] rails behind my house