Race for the Prize

 The theme of this song is that no prize is great enough to be worth sacrificing your world for. Many lyrics from the song manifest this idea, such as "But it's so dangerous, but they're determined" In this quote the two scientists make the step to disregarding their own safety in the name of finding whatever they're looking for, they are willing to sacrifice their mortal flesh for their goal. this is superhuman determination and can only be described as an obsession. The music was rather dreamlike and plaintive which made me imagine the scientists were lost in the dreamlike world of life under a microscope, and had become detached from reality.