Stuff of Songs

I recently starting putting together some of my favorite artists to form radio stations on Pandora (www.pandora.com). I like products like this that clearly demonstrate the brillance of their creators. Pandora doesn't just take the artists you pick and play their music, but through some musical/mathematical magic finds music that is similar to your artists to build a whole channel. So my favorite station was set up with Lifehouse, Train, Matchbox Twenty, and Third Eye Blind. I have been listening to it for several days now, along with some other channels I set up. What has struck me in my listening, is how love is so often the theme of songs. Yes, I suppose if I listened to rap or hip hop, I may have a different perception. Why love? Not worries about money, not about crappy-ass days at work, not dealing with morons? Lyrics and music come together to desperately capture the feelings of love or its aftermath. Try to explain it, try to deal with it. Do we keep demanding these songs because we are junkies for the feelings associated with love? When we are in it, the songs make us fly higher. When we are falling out of it, the songs painfully draw out our tears for love lost and put words (or a tune) to the wrenching mass of emotions within us. And if we are healed, it takes us back to those good and bad emotional times associated with love, reminding us what we have lived through. And keep us hopeful for our next hit.