LYRICS
You see, the difficulty is this:
You cannot teach
A selfish person to be unselfish.
By any means
That is to say
Whatever a selfish person does
Whether it be giving his body to be burned
Or giving all that he possesses to the poor
He will still do it in a selfish way of feeling
And he will be able to do this with extreme cunning
Marvelous self-deception
You see, the difficulty is this:
You cannot teach
A selfish person to be unselfish
By any means
That is to say
Whatever a selfish person does
Whether it be giving his body to be burned
Or giving all that he possesses to the poor
He will still do it in a selfish way of feeling
And he will be able to do this with extreme cunning
Marvelous self-deception