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Musical Monday #110

Welcome to the 110th 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.

It's a somewhat super-sized edition this week, one of those themes that grew in the researching. Thought there is a single theme, the breaks between groups of songs will become clear once it is ID'ed. A couple of additional guidelines: In every case, I'm looking for one particular version of the song, usually but not necessarily the most well-known. Also, you may ignore the definite article in all cases.

1) "Then she did a dip, almost broke my hip"
2) "The boy whose name is Nicorino"

3) "Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife"
4) "And not some puppet on a string"
5) "Thunder is your night light, magic is your dream"
6) "You say you're love is bona fide"
7) "Until happiness is just an illusion"
8) "That don't matter, he said, 'cause it's all the same"
9) "These four walls are closing in, think of the fix you put me in"
10) "And I always carry a purse"
11) "Well I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again"
12) "I can see a new horizon underneath the blazing sky"
13) "Over silbury hill, through the solar field"
14) "Take my tears and that's not nearly all"
15) "It was the same old song, with a melancholy sound"

16) "In a world of persecution, that is burning in its greed"
17) "To see the total eclipse of the sun"
18) "You are the reason I've been waiting so long"
19) "We were young and wild and free"
20) "And I should've been gone, after all your words of steel"
21) "He misses a step and cuts his hand"
22) "Mommy served in the WACS in the Philippines"
23) "It's an enemy to all mankind"
24) "Love is a banquet on which we feed"
25) "You don't know what you been a-missin'"
26) "A Cadillac a-rollin' on an open road"
27) "Bing bang, I saw the whole gang"
28) "Why can't he see, how blind can he be?"
29) "Like sugar and spice, so nice, so nice"
30) "You'll never be mine, I'm wasting my time"
31) "Forget about the past and all your sorrows"
32) "It controls me, makes me do all the things I do for you"
33) "It suits me fine that you treat me like a child"
34) "In the shape of an 'L' on her forehead"
35) "She said I was the tiger she wanted to tame"
36) "There's no way they could have made two"
37) "We've known each other since we're nine or ten"
38) "...can do the boogaloo like I do"
39) "Steam in the subway, earth is afire"
40) "I see us on the shore beneath the bright sunshine"
41) "Could it be finally I'm turning for home?"
42) "Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky"
43) "Worry, why do I let myself worry?"
44) "It's a long way down, and it's a leap of faith"
45) "If you want my future forget my past"
46) "Remember dancing at the high school hop?"
47) "You can stretch right up and touch the sky"
48) "Get hung up feed the ducks with a bun"
49) "I know you've been taken, afraid to hurt again"
50) "You like the movies, and I like T.V."
51) "You have won all my money, and my brand new Stetson hat"
52) "We were cruisin' home from the Beatles concert"
53) "I got no natural rhythm"
54) "Is this Nutsy land so good?"
55) "White sugar don't touch my lips"
56) "And there I stood with a arrow in my back"

57) "Thirteen month old baby"
58) "I should have changed that stupid lock"
59) "You like to think that you're immune to the stuff"
60) "If you're not into yoga"
61) "Your mama and daddy say it's a shame, it's a downright disgrace"
62) "Sitting on the doorstep of the house I can't afford"
63) "Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine"
64) "Maybe I didn't hold you all those lonely, lonely times"
65) "I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay"
66) "I'll love you 'till the clover has lost its perfume"
67) "My one and only prayer is that someday you'll care"
68) "At first she's gonna come on strong"

69) "The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear"
70) "But I had to do some breakin' through"
71) "She wants to return those things I bought her"
72) "Walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound"

73) "And my soul has been psychedelicized"

Good luck and enjoy!