Musical Monday #70

Welcome to the 70th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

This week, the song quotes are broken into three subgroups: 1-16, 17-50, and 51-55. All three groups relate to the same overall theme, but in different ways. I'll also add that several - though by no means all - of the songs in the first and last groups would qualify for the middle group as well (but not vice versa); in fact one or two songs from the first group would even fit all three. Also, as always, if a given song was covered by multiple artists, I'm looking for one particular version.

1) "I'm not one of those who can easily hide"
2) "All day long I think of things"
3) "Hung me on a line"
4) "Lived and learned from fools and from sages"
5) "Of his honor and his glory the people would sing"
6) "Better recognize your brothers"
7) "You were light and breezy"
8) "Do a ton or a ton an' twenty-five"
9) "Insufficient data coming through"
10) "Perfume came naturally from Paris"
11) "Really want to go with you"
12) "Please don't say we'll never find a way"
13) "Setting suns and lonely lovers free"
14) "Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum"
15) "You don't have to shout or leap about"
16) "Her hair is kinda' wild and free"

17) "Under electric candlelight"
18) "All the good times I've been misusin'"
19) "The future's uncertain and the end is always near"
20) "I've got values but I don't know how or why"
21) "Can you play their games?"
22) "Don't you think that love can last?"
23) "I'm alone in the dark, even though"
24) "Give me spots on my apples"
25) "A statue wearing high heels"
26) "Stop messin' round with your tricks"
27) "I've been lost now days uncounted"
28) "You make me sing like a guitar hummin'"
29) "All the branches of the learning tree"
30) "The music plays so nonchalant"
31) "They seek the truth before they can die"
32) "My body's aching and my time is at hand"
33) "In a castle dark or a fortress strong"
34) "Life is for us to keep"
35) "Her wild-eyed innocence is just a game"
36) "A kiss for luck and we're on our way"
37) "An overfed, long-haired leaping gnome"
38) "Friend only to the undertaker"
39) "You may get disgusted, and think I'm strange"
40) "Tall white mansions and little shacks"
41) "Lines form on my face and hands"
42) "Were gonna' stimulate some action"
43) "And I never drew one response from you"
44) "The breeze along the river seems to say"
45) "Let some air into this room!"
46) "You know she was a dancer, she moved better on wine"
47) "But in the grey of the morning my mind becomes confused"
48) "Leroy, boy, you're my friend"
49) "Seen a lot of things in this old world"
50) "Won't you hop inside my car?"

51) "I wake up to the sound of music"
52) "Then I'm laying out my winter clothes"
53) "You say your mom ain't home, it ain't my concern"
54) "Dialing for dollars is trying to find me"
55) "All the girls they try to take me away, take me away"

Good luck and enjoy!