Like Father, Like Son

Song Like Father, Like Son
Artist Adam Pascal
Album Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Lyrics

[00:07.000] Like Father, like son
[00:10.422] Like Father, like son
[00:12.930] Don't come on so cocksure boy
[00:16.274] You can't escape your genes
[00:19.539] There's no point in feeling pure boy
[00:22.987] Your background intervenes
[00:26.305] Now listen good and listen straight
[00:29.779] You're not the master of your fate
[00:33.175] To this you must be reconciled
[00:36.545] You'll always be your father's child
[00:39.915] At times acclaimed, at times reviled
[00:42.475] You'll wind up doing just what I've done
[00:45.844] Like father, like son
[00:54.256] Don't assume your vices
[00:56.920] Get handed down the line
[01:00.395] That a parent's blood suffices
[01:03.791] To condemn the child's design
[01:07.186] I've done wrong, I can't deny
[01:10.426] But at least I know that I
[01:13.848] I shouldn't blame that on my stock
[01:17.165] Well this may come as quite a shock
[01:20.222] I'm no chip off any block
[01:23.121] I wouldn't wish those words on anyone
[01:26.569] Like father, like son
[01:34.354] Son you're nervous, take my hand
[01:37.384] All is settled, all is planned
[01:40.989] You've got the world at your command
[01:43.706] I don't think you understand
[01:48.068] I appreciate too well
[01:51.203] The squalor at which you excel
[01:54.912] It isn't very hard to tell
[01:57.812] Evil's a distinctive smell
[02:08.679] He's lost all sense of reason, and why?
[02:13.041] Some foreign slut
[02:15.497] Not only is that treason
[02:18.919] Some doors are slamming shut
[02:22.236] Just like me he's found that flesh
[02:25.371] Can excite but will enmesh
[02:28.976] Once we rid him of this blight
[02:32.372] Once that harlot's out of sight
[02:35.193] Then I think he'll see the light
[02:38.328] He won't walk back to daddy
[02:40.104] He will run
[02:41.645] Like father, like son
[02:51.023] Like Father, like son
[02:54.367] Like Father, like son
[02:57.711] Like Father, like -
[02:59.722] Son