Closing the Door

Jimmy Durante sang that wonderful song entitled: "Did You Ever Have The Feeling That You Wanted To Go?" He plays it in the move "The Man Who Came To Dinner", alternately getting up from the piano, but immediately sitting down and then again and then again pivotting on the piano bench as he goes nowhere.

Here are the lyrics


Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go,
And still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?
Start to go,
Change your mind,
Start to go again,
Change your mind again...
Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go,
And still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do -
I go!
I stay!

Closing the Door
By Big Frank Dickinson

"In or out; close the door."
Me in the doorway open to the night.
"In or out" – make up your mind."
I don’t even remember what it was that
kept me standing there midway between
in . . . and . . . out; but I remember the
rich possibilities and the sense of coming
and going at the same time – the tug between
familiar temporary inside - I didn’t want to
miss – earnest laughter with knowing looks –
anchors dripping meaning and
around it . . . outside swirled the other kids
in the night air. . . free of the sitters,

hiding on the inside from their obligatory
roaming responsibilities in the bushes,
and me . . . standing in the doorway between
the pool of light over the table and the
outside night freedom.
"In or out; close the door."