Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

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 ok

Chorus

 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

Verse

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 at me, i'd say sure

Chorus

 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

Verse

tell me this feeling lasts till 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

Chorus

 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

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