VERSE
D5 A5 D5 A5
lift up your head, wash off your mascara
A?6 A5 E5 A5
here, take my kleenex, wipe that lipstick away
D5 A5 D5 A5
show me your face, clean as the mornin
A?6 A5 E5 A5
i know things were bad, but now they're ok
CHORUS
( A5 ) D5 A5
suddenly seymour is standing beside you
E5 D5 A5 A5
you don't need no makeup, don't have to pretend
D5 A5 A5 F#5
suddenly seymour is here to provide you
D5 E5 D5 A5
sweet understanding, seymour's your friend
VERSE
D5 A5 D5 A5
nobody ever treated me kindly
A?6 A5 E5 A5
daddy left early, mama was poor
D5 A5 D5 A5
i'd meet a man and i'd follow him blindly
A?6 A5 E5 A5
he'd snap his fingers at me, i'd say sure
CHORUS
( A5 ) D5 A5
suddenly seymour is standin beside me
E5 D5 A5 A5
he don't give me orders, he don't condescend
D5 A5 A5 F#5
suddenly seymour is here to provide me
D5 E5 D5 A5
sweet understanding, seymour's my friend
VERSE
D5 A5 D5 A5
tell me this feeling lasts till forever
A?6 A5 E5 A5
tell me the bad times are clean washed away
D5 A5 D5 A5
please understand that it's still strange and frightening
A?6 A5 E5 A5
for losers like i've been it's so hard to say
CHORUS
( A5 ) D5 A5
suddenly seymour, he purified me
E5 D5 A5 A5
suddenly seymour showed me i can
D5 A5 A5 F#5
learn how to be more the girl that's inside me
D5
with sweet understanding
D5
with sweet understanding
A5 E5
with sweet understanding
A5 F#5 D5 A5
seymour's my maaah-aaaah-aaaaah-aaan!
