Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

lift up your head, wash off your mas cara

here, take my kleenex, wipe that lipstick awa y

show me your face, clean as the mornin

i know things were bad, but now they're ok

Chorus

suddenly seymour is standing be side 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

Verse

nobody ever treated me kindly

daddy left early, mama was po or

i'd meet a man and i'd follow him blindly

he'd snap his fingers at me, i'd say su re

Chorus

suddenly seymour is standin be side me

he don't give me orders, he don't condescend

suddenly seymour is here to provide me

sweet understanding, seymour's my friend

Verse

tell me this feeling lasts till for ever

tell me the bad times are clean washed awa y

please understand that it's still strange and frightening

for losers like i've been it's so hard to sa y

Chorus

suddenly seymour, he puri fied me

suddenly seymour showed me i can

learn how to be more the girl that's inside me

with sweet under standing

with sweet under standing

with sweet understanding

seymour's my maaah-aaaah-aaaaah- aaan!