What is the theme of the song?
There are people in the world devoted their entire lives to bettering mankind. These people sacrifice their own lives to move our species one step forward. In the song, the instrumentation and tune makes the song seem happy but the lyrics seem sad. This is to show that these people are willing and wanting to put their own lives in danger for everyone else, they aren't forced to sacrifice they're own lives. I think this song also wants to show that individual people are not very important in the grand scheme of the world. The lyrics say that there are scientists fighting to reach a prize even if it kills them, and then it says "they're just humans". This shows that the loss of an individual isn't nearly as important as an improvement for our entire species.
When you say that the lyrics seems sad be specific about which lyrics seem sad. Very interesting interpretation of the song as a whole. I like the idea that the individual means little in the grand scheme of things. Well argued that survival of the species takes precedent over our own lives at times.
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