The song is a 2008 Billboard Song Contest Winner in Americana/Folk. It's a call to action song, inspiring people to help each other make the world a better place. Sounds like Alanis M, but starts out soft and uses rising energy to wake people up.

It describes the situations of people like a beggar and a young girl who had her baby taken away. It urges listeners to realize that we're not so far away from being like them, and we have a responsibility to help each other when we're down and out.

It was written originally to be performed in interfaith churches, but caught on rapidly in the folk and rock worlds. Well-liked by all ages.

I saw a beggar starving in the street
I picked him up gave him something to eat
I took him home and let him talk to me all night

He said he tried to work from 9 to 5
He had trouble keeping his soul alive
Waiting for those stock options that never ever came
left him an angry man

CHORUS
Don't try to sell me a pot of gold
at the end of a never ending rainbow
Let's help one another
We're all one you know
There's nowhere to go
'cause we're already home
No place like home

There but for the grace of God go I...

I saw a girl talk to herself today
down the stairs by that rundown subway
She said they took her baby and the pain was just too much to bear
So she was out of there

CHORUS
Don't try to sell me a pot of gold
at the end of a never ending rainbow
Let's love one another
We're all one you know
There's nowhere to run
'cause we're already home
No place like home

The kingdom of heaven is spread upon the earth
but we just do not see it
We have everything we could ever need
if we just choose to believe it

CHORUS
Don't try to sell me a pot of gold
at the end of a never ending rainbow
Let's help one another
We're all one you know
There's nowhere to go
'cause we're already home

Don't try to sell me a pot of gold
at the end of a never ending rainbow
Let's love one another
Make the broken whole
There's nowhere to run
'cause we're already home
No place like home
The kingdom of heaven is spread upon the earth