Lift up your head, wash off your mascara   Here, take my kleenex, wipe that lipstick away   Show me your face clean as the mornin'   I know things were bad but now they're okay      Suddenly, Seymour is standing beside you   You don't need no make-up don't have to pretend   Suddenly, Seymour is here to provide you   Sweet understandin', Seymour's your friend      Nobody ever treated me kindly   Daddy left early, Mama was poor   I need a man and I'd follow him blindly   He'd snap his fingers me and 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 last 'til forever   Tell me the bad times are clean 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   (Suddenly, Seymour)   He purified me   (He purified you)      Suddenly, Seymour   (Suddenly, Seymour)   Showed me I can   (Yes, you can)      Learn how to be more   The girl that's inside me   (The girl that's inside you)      With sweet understanding   (With sweet understanding)   With sweet understanding   (With sweet understanding)   With sweet understanding   Seymour's your man