Musical Monday #98

Welcome to the 98th 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.

All fifty songs relate to a single theme today, but it is worth noting that the last five on the list belong to a different musical genre than the rest.

And yes, I know I'm very late with the answers to last week's MM; hopefully you'll see them later today.

1) "In the stillness of remembering what you had"
2) "Pull myself together, put on a new face"
3) "Reach for the golden ring, reach for the sky"
4) "Half my life is in books' written pages"
5) "You're a princess, chains around you"
6) "Two spirits dancing so strange"
7) "Someday I don't know how, I hope you'll hear my plea"
8) "Only trouble is, gee whiz"
9) "There must be peace and understanding sometime"
10) "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman"
11) "Well, I can't tell lies, cause they're listening to me"
12) "Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive"
13) "What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
14) "Wondering if Mother Earth will survive"
15) "Help me to forget today's pain"
16) "You know the preacher likes the cold"
17) "Here am I, I'm taking a chance"
18) "How to put it together, how to say it right"
19) "We've walked along St. Thomas beach a million times"
20) "You could tell I was no debutante"
21) "I feel like I'm heading up to a cardiac arrest"
22) "And fall on my face on somebody's new-mowed lawn"
23) "Without dollar one to spend"
24) "And when he's lonesome and feeling loved starved"
25) "Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup"
26) "Stars fading but I linger on, dear"
27) "Moving sidewalks, I don't see under my feet"
28) "The room was empty as I staggered from my bed"
29) "We couldn't tear ourselves away"
30) "I walk without a cut through a stained glass wall"
31) "When you're so downhearted and misunderstood"
32) "I must be looking for something, something sacred I lost"
33) "Travel the world and the seven seas"
34) "And I know you've got the ashes to prove it"
35) "Deep water all around me, circle sharks all about"
36) "Concerning myself and the first few friends I had"
37) "First night so long, a state of mind, what can go wrong"
38) "I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes"
39) "She took my new sunglasses and my old jean jacket"
40) "I wonder if these heavy eyes can face the unknown?"
41) "Here to share with one another, father, brother, sister, mother"
42) "Rain pourin' down, I swing my hammer"
43) "They may laugh at you and call you green"
44) "And my destination makes it worth the while"
45) "And I will lose myself in palaces of sand"
46) "The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam"
47) "No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing"
48) "A crash of drums, a flash of light"
49) "To run... where the brave dare not go"
50) "There was a time, when love was blind, and the world was a song"

Good luck and enjoy!