cashin' in

what would it be like to shoot a man in reno? i've been to reno and it's not really meant to be the topic of a song ... it may as well be, 'i shot a man in Truckee' ... maybe it's the extremities that creates an urge to kill. the bleakness of uniformity, the heat, the gambling, the sin-city-wannabe, the remoteness. really the bowels of america. if reno was named something else, would johnny have shot that man, there?