Lift up your head, wipe off that mascara   Here take my Kleenex, wipe your lipstick away   Show me your face as 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 make up, 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, momma was poor   I'd meet a man and 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 these feelings will last 'til forever   Show 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 hard to say      Suddenly Seymour, suddenly Seymour   He purified me   Suddenly Seymour, suddenly Seymour   Showed me I can, yes, you can      Learn how to be more   The girl that's inside me/you      With sweet understanding   With sweet understandin'   With sweet understanding   With sweet understandin'      With sweet understanding   Seymour's [unverified] man