Rock out with your STRANGER out!

Years ago I read STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein HERE. It is said that the book and this song by Iron Maiden are unrelated, but I wonder about that. It would strike me as too much of a coincidence that a band well-known for writing songs based on literature would have a song with the same title as what is claimed to be the most famous science fiction story ever. I suppose they might've used the biblical reference like Heinlein did. Regardless, here's the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJ5W3S6JrY

 

IRON MAIDEN

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

Was many years ago that I left home and came this way
I was a young man, full of hope and dreams
But now it seems to me that all is lost and
nothing gained
Sometimes things ain't what they seem
No brave new world, no brave new world
No brave new world, no brave new world


Night and day I scan horizon, sea and sky
My spirit wanders endlessly
Until the day will dawn and friends from home
discover why
Hear me calling, rescue me
Set me free, set me free
Lost in this place, and leave no trace


Stranger in a strange land
Land of ice and snow
Trapped inside this prison
Lost and far from home


One hundred years have gone and men again
they came that way
To find the answer to the mystery
They found his body lying where it fell all that day
Preserved in time for all to see
No brave new world, no brave new world
Lost in this place, and leave no trace


What became of the man that started
All are gone and their souls departed
Left me here in this place
So all alone


What became of the man that started
All are gone and their souls departed
Left me here in this place
So all alone