"Race for the Prize"- The Flaming Lips

           The theme of this song is that one can get lose track of reality when striving for a goal. In "Race for the Prize", the end of the first stanza states that they are "locked in heated battle for the cure that is their prize, But its so dangerous, But they're determined." This shows that no matter what these people will not give up on their goal. It also says that "if it kills them" they are only just human. This shows that they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal, and that they are in another world almost.