Like Father, Like Son Songtext / Lyric

Like father, like son
Like father, like son

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 justwhat 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 chil'ds design
I've done wrong, I can't deny
But at least I know that I
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
Now 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

Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son