Lift up your head
wash off your mascara
Here take my Kleenex
wipe that lipstick away  
Show me your face
clean as the morning  
I know things were bad
but now they're okay
Suddenly Seymour is standing  
beside you  
You don't need no makeup  
Don't have to pretend
Suddenly Seymour is here  
to provide you  
Sweet understanding
Seymour's your friend  
Nobody ever treated me  
kindly  
Daddy left early
mama was poor  
I'd meet a man  
and I'd follow him blindly  
He'd snap his fingers  
Me I'd say sure
Suddenly Seymour is standing  
beside me  
He don't give me orders
he don't condescend
Suddenly Seymour is here  
to provide me  
Sweet understanding
Seymour's my friend  
Tell me this feeling will  
last till forever  
Tell me the bad times are  
cleaned washed away  
Please understand that  
it's still strange  
and frightening  
For losers like
I've been it's so hard to say  
Suddenly Seymour
he purified me  
Suddenly  
Seymour showed me I can
Learn how to be more  
the girl that's inside me  
With sweet understanding  
With sweet understanding
With sweet understanding
With sweet understanding
With sweet understanding
Seymour's my man