"Race for the Prize" by the Flaming Lips (1999)

The theme of this song is the pursuit of a good life (happiness) and its dangers. One example that can support this is in the first stanza where they sing "Locked in a heated battle for the cure that is their prize". It doesn't say what the cure is for, but I take it as a cure to making life good. The theme is also supported in the chorus, where they sing "Theirs is to win if it kills them; Their just humans with wives and children". This shows that they aren't machines; they have feelings, and the one they are going for is their "cure", although they ignore those.