It's a long, long way down to Reno Nevada And a long, long way to your home But the change in your pocket is beginning to grumble And you reap just about what you've sown You can walk down the street, pass your face in the window You can keep on fooling around You can work day and night, take a chance on promotion You can fall through a hole in the ground Now there ain't no game like the game you're playing When you got a little something to lose And there ain't no time like the the time you been wasting And you waste just about what you choose There's a man at the table and you know he's been able To return all the odds that you lay Hey, but you can't feed your hunger and you ain't getting younger And your tongue ain't got nothing to say And it's a long, long way down to Reno Nevada And a long, long way to your home But the ground underneath you is beginning to tremble And the sky up a above you has grown There's a time to be moving and a time to be grooving And a time just for climbing the wall But the odds have been doubled and it ain't worth the trouble And you're never going nowhere at all It's a long, long way down to Reno Nevada And a long, long way to your home But the change in your pocket is beginning to grumble And you reap just about what you've sown There's a man at the table and you know he's been able To return all the odds that you lay Hey, but you can't feed your hunger and you ain't getting younger And your tongue ain't got nothing to say