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 standin' 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 lasts till forever Tell me the bad times are clean washed away
Please understand that it's still Strange and frightnin' For losers like I've been It's so hard to say
Suddenly Seymour
Suddenly Seymour He purified me He purified you
Suddenly Seymour showed me I can Suddenly Seymour showed you you can
Learn how to be more The girl that's inside me (you) With sweet understanding