D            A          D           A
lift up your head, wash off your mascara
F#m           A                  E         A
here, take my kleenex, wipe that lipstick away
D            A     D            A
show me your face, clean as the mornin
  F#m              A        E            A
i know things were bad, but now they're ok

[Chorus]
(A)      D                     A
suddenly seymour is standing beside you
                  E     D                  A    A7
you don't need no makeup, don't have to pretend
         D                     A E  F#m
suddenly seymour is here to provide you
           D       E                D      A
sweet understanding, seymour's your friend

[Verse]
D      A    D          A
nobody ever treated me kindly
F#m        A      E        A
daddy left early, mama was poor
D          A          D           A
i'd meet a man and i'd follow him blindly
F#m           A             E        A
he'd snap his fingers at me, i'd say sure

[Chorus]
(A)      D                    A
suddenly seymour is standin beside me
                 E      D              A     A7
he don't give me orders, he don't condescend
         D                     A E  F#m
suddenly seymour is here to provide me
           D      E               D      A
sweet understanding, seymour's my friend

[Verse]
D            A       D             A
tell me this feeling lasts till forever
F#m         A             E             A
tell me the bad times are clean washed away
D           A               D                 A
please understand that it's still strange and frightening
    F#m         A              E          A
for losers like i've been it's so hard to say

[Chorus]
(A)      D               A
suddenly seymour, he purified me
         E      D            A   A7
suddenly seymour showed me i can
             D                         A E  F#m
learn how to be more the girl that's inside me
                D
with sweet understanding
                Dm
with sweet understanding
                A        E
with sweet understanding
             A     F#7   Dm     A
seymour's my maaah-aaaah-aaaaah-aaan!