People Get Ready Lyrics

Lyric discussion by picturesofthesun 

Cover art for People Get Ready lyrics by Impressions, The

We sang this in church recently and there was one lyric nobody could understand. It goes:

"There ain’t no room for the greedy sinner Hurt everybody just to save their soul"

The obvious question is of course how would a "greedy sinner" expect to save their own soul by hurting everybody else?

The rest of the song is pretty straightforward, about having faith being "saved," etc., with the train being netaphoriclaly headed for heaven.

Any ideas?

Song Meaning

It's actually "Hurt everybody just to save his own." As in hurting other people in order to get ahead.