Sultan Of The Economic Cafe

G Am Em C G D G C G

[Verse 1]
G        Am         C   G       D
All of a sudden the city got so small
G                  C          G
And I really don’t like it at all
          Am           C
All these trends in my friends
          G          D
It feels like my backyard
        Em          C       G      D G
And the bartender’s way too familiar


[Verse 2]
 G            Am            C                G            D
All of these once-revered nights about are losing their charm
 G         C         G
Even with her on my arm
       Am         C           G        D
In a taxi that’s full of the people I know
   Em         C          G    D  G
Where can we go to find snow?

[Verse 3]
C                  G         Am           D
We stepped out the door, the air was too warm
       C      G         Am          D
The lingo we spoke was like hidden form
     C        G           Am        D
And all the main men got yellow at heart
    C           G               Am    D
We didn’t stay together, we drifted apart
    C   D     C            D            C       D       C       D
And I guess that’s what we must have wanted
       Em        C                Am
‘Cause I recall none of us were retarded
  D
Unless we were on drugs or in love

[Instrumental]
G Am C G D Em C

[Verse 4]
G             Am        C      G      D
I visited the sultan of the economic café
        G         C           G
And he told me today was the day
        Am          C            G      D
He was selling his shop, he was moving away
 G            C          G
Back to his hometown in India
             Am          C          G        D
The image I had was of beggars all over the place
     G               C          G
But he told me this wasn’t the case
         Am          C         G            D
And he showed me a picture of his two best friends
        G             C             G      D   Em
And he said he felt nervous about seeing them again

[Verse 5]
        C               G       Am           D
When I stepped out the door, I felt kind of sad
    C            G          Am          D
I thought about faces and pets I once had
    C            G                Am            D
I thought about beginnings and I thought about ends
    C                G          Am             G
I thought about the sultan and his two best friends
    C   D           C        D        C        D    C    D
And I thought the sultan and I were quite similar
     Em            C                 Am          D         G
And I’m sure the bartenders over in India are familiar to him