Like Father Like Son
 
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Tim Rice

(Father)
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
Like father, like son
  
(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 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
  
(Father)
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 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
(Repeat until fade)
  

LENNY KRAVITZ
"Like Father Like Son"
Soundtrack : Elton John And Tim Rice's Aida