Like Father Like Son

"Like Father Like Son" is the ninth song from the concept album, Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida. The song is sung by Lenny Kravitz.
The song was about an argument between Radames and Zoser. Radames had fallen in love with a Nubian slave and Zoser warned his son that doing so could cost him his right as Pharaoh. Radames insisted he does not care, and went too far to denounce his father.
==Lyrics==
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Concept Version=
Don't come on so cocksure boy
You can't escape your genes
No point in feeling purer boy
Your background intervenes
Listen good and listen straight
You're not the master of your fate
To this you must be reconciled
You'll always be your father's child
At times acclaimed, at times reviled
You wind up doing just what I've done
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Don't assume your vices
Get handed down the line
That a parent's blood suffices
To condemn the child's design
I've done wrong, I can't deny
But at least I know that I
Shouldn't blame that on my stock
This may come as a quite a shock
I'm no chip off any block
I wouldn't wish those words on anyone
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
He's lost all sense of reason
And why some filthy slave
That is the road called treason
That winds up in the grave
Just like me, he's found out a flesh
Can excite but will it mesh
Watch me rid him of this blight
Once this harlot's out of sight
Then I think he will see the light
He won't walk back to daddy, he will run
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
|-|Broadway Version=
Zoser: Don't come on so cocksure boy, you can't escape your genes
No point in feeling pure boy, your background intervenes
Listen good and listen straight, you're not the master of your fate
To this you must be reconciled, you'll always be your father's child
At times acclaimed, at times reviled
You'll wind up doing just what I've done
Like father, like son
Radames: Don't assume your vices get handed down the line
That a parent's blood suffices to condemn the child's design
I've done wrong, I can't deny, but at least I know that I
Shouldn't blame that on my stock, this may come as quite a shock
I'm no chip off any block, I wouldn't wish those words on anyone
Like father, like son
Zoser: Son you're nervous, take my hand
All is settled,all is planned
You've got the world at your command
I don't think you understand
Radames: I appreciate too well
The squalor at which you excel
It isn't very hard to tell
Evil's a distinctive smell
Zoser: He's lost all sense of reason, and why?
Some foreign slut
That is the road called treason,
Some doors are slamming shut
Just like me he's found that flesh can excite but will enmesh
Once we rid him of this blight.
Once this harlot's out of sight.
Then I think he'll see the light.
He won't walk back to daddy he will run.
Like father, like son
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Category:Aida songs
Category:Musical songs
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