Musical Monday #167

Welcome to the 167th edition of Musical Monday, with the challenge, as always, 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 single theme today, though #24 bends the rules a bit. Could have probably found several more good examples, but after three weeks, I wanted to get this posted today. Feel free, as always, to add bonus lyrics of your own!

1) "A sacred gift of heaven, for better, worse, wherever"
2) "Smile and grin at the change all around"
3) "All I need is a TV show, that and the radio"
4) "Your black cards can bring you money"
5) "And he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette"
6) "Insisting that the world keep turning our way"
7) "You know the first time I traveled out in the rain and snow"
8) "But we both know the life I'm livin, and we both know the reason why"
9) "And I had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last"
10) "I lost him once through friends advice"
11) "No jolts, no surprises, no crisis arises"
12) "Or will I have to suffer and cry the whole night through?"
13) "Like a drifter I was born to walk alone"
14) "I can't remember half an hour since a quarter to four"
15) "You're messin' up my mind an' fillin' up my senses"
16) "Talk to me, like lovers do"
17) "Like a bird, you know she would fly, what can you do"
18) "See for yourself you have been sitting on a time bomb"
19) "Pay the grocer, fix the toaster, kiss the host goodbye"
20) "All the words have been spoken and the prophecy fulfilled"
21) "Chills my soul right to the marrow"
22) "All the empty yesterdays have disappeared"
23) "One day soon you're gonna reach sixteen, painted lady in the city of lies"
24) "To think that only yesterday, I was cheerful, bright and gay"
25) "Tried so hard to make you see, but I couldn't find the words"
26) "Staring at the green door living in the sky"
27) "But I put my heart above my head"
28) "So much of this left to begin; where would I be?"
29) "I try to forget and yet, still rush to the telephone"
30) "The way I hold you when the night just seems to fly"
31) "But like the sun we watched it fade away, from morning into lonely night"
32) "You get enough germs to catch pneumonia"
33) "A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday"
34) "Don't stop the flow, we can't let go"
35) "Like Columbus in the olden days, we must gather all our courage"
36) "Been down one time, been down two times"
37) "Just string her along; it's just not right"
38) "C'mon you little fighter, no need to get uptighter"
39) "I played with your heart, got lost in the game"
40) "Every single time I roll across the rolling River Tyne"
41) "We lost what we had, that's why it hurt so bad, it set us back a thousand years"
42) "When ol' Lynyrd Skynrd's pickin' down in Jacksonville"
43) "Doctor, my woman is comin' back home late today"
44) "And still I head that sharp tongue talking, talking tangled words"
45) "There are times when I look above and beyond"
46) "There's no fight, you can't fight, this battle of love with me"

Good luck and enjoy!