| Lift up your head
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| Wash off your mascara
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| Here, take my Kleenex
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| Wipe that lipstick away
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| Show me your face, clean as the mornin'
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| I know things were bad, but now they’re okay
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| Suddenly Seymour is standin' beside you
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| You don’t need no makeup, don’t have to pretend
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| Suddenly Seymour is here to provide you
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| Sweet understanding
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| Seymour’s your friend
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| Nobody ever treated me kindly
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| Daddy left early
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| Mama was poor
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| I’d meet a man and I’d follow him blindly
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| He’d snap his fingers
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| Me, I’d say «sure.»
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| Suddenly Seymour is standin' beside me He don’t give me orders
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| He don’t condescend
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| Suddenly Seymour is here to provide me Sweet understanding
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| Seymour’s my friend
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| Tell me this feelin’ll last till forever
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| Tell me the bad times are clean washed away
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| Please understand that it’s still strange and fright’nin'
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| For losers like I’ve been it’s so hard to say
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| Suddenly Seymour,
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| He purified me Suddenly Seymour
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| He showed me I can
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| Learn how to be more
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| The girl that’s inside me With sweet understanding,
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| With sweet understanding,
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| With sweet understanding,
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| Seymour’s my man!
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| Suddenly Seymour,
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| He purified you
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| Suddenly Seymour
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| Yes, you can
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| Learn how to be more
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| The girl that’s inside you
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| With sweet understanding,
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| With sweet understanding,
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| With sweet understanding,
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| Seymour’s your man |