LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Lyrics
Soundtrack: Aida (complete libretto) Lyrics
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Text
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
Do you really want to throw away your future? All for some wretched slave!
RADAMES
She has a name!
ZOSER
In a few months, you won't even be able to remember her name!
RADAMES
I appreciate too well
The squalor at which you excel
it isn't very hard to tell
Evil's a distinctive smell
You can forget about your plans, father. There will be no wedding!
(RADAMES storms off, leaving ZOSER horrified.)
ZOSER
He's lost all sense of reason, and why?
Some foreign sl*t
Not only is that 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...
ZOSER & MINISTERS
Like Father, like son
Like Father, like son
Like Father, like
ZOSER
Son
(ZOSER turns to his men.)
Find the slave girl called Aida. And when you do...kill her.
ACT TWO
Scene Four
NUBIAN SLAVE CAMP
AIDA stands alone. Suddenly a slave woman appears outside the fence. She
slips AIDA a folded note and disappears. AIDA begins to read and RADAMES
appears in her imagination.
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
Do you really want to throw away your future? All for some wretched slave!
RADAMES
She has a name!
ZOSER
In a few months, you won't even be able to remember her name!
RADAMES
I appreciate too well
The squalor at which you excel
it isn't very hard to tell
Evil's a distinctive smell
You can forget about your plans, father. There will be no wedding!
(RADAMES storms off, leaving ZOSER horrified.)
ZOSER
He's lost all sense of reason, and why?
Some foreign sl*t
Not only is that 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...
ZOSER & MINISTERS
Like Father, like son
Like Father, like son
Like Father, like
ZOSER
Son
(ZOSER turns to his men.)
Find the slave girl called Aida. And when you do...kill her.
ACT TWO
Scene Four
NUBIAN SLAVE CAMP
AIDA stands alone. Suddenly a slave woman appears outside the fence. She
slips AIDA a folded note and disappears. AIDA begins to read and RADAMES
appears in her imagination.
Aida (complete libretto)
Soundtrack Lyrics for Musical, 1990
Track Listing
›Prologue Lyrics
›EVERY STORY Lyrics
›A SLAVE BARGE Lyrics
›FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE Lyrics
›RADAMES' QUARTERS Lyrics
›THE PAST IS ANOTHER LAND Lyrics
›THE DOCKS Lyrics
›ANOTHER PYRAMID Lyrics
›HOW I KNOW YOU Lyrics
›MY STRONGEST SUIT Lyrics
›THE PHARAOH'S PRIVATE BANQUET ROOM Lyrics
›FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE (Reprise) Lyrics
›ENCHANTMENT PASSING THROUGH Lyrics
›AMNERIS' DRESSING ROOM Lyrics
›STRONGEST SUIT (Reprise) Lyrics
›THE NUBIAN SLAVE CAMP Lyrics
›DANCE OF THE ROBE Lyrics
›THE NILE'S EDGE Lyrics
›ELABORATE LIVES Lyrics
›THE GOD'S LOVE NUBIA Lyrics
›STARSCAPE Lyrics
›A STEP TOO FAR Lyrics
›THE PRISON Lyrics
›EASY AS LIFE Lyrics
›THE WAR ROOM OF THE PALACE Lyrics
›LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Lyrics
›RADAMES' LETTER Lyrics
›RADAMES' GARDEN Lyrics
›WRITTEN IN THE STARS Lyrics
›I KNOW THE TRUTH Lyrics
›AMNERIS' DRESSING ROOM Lyrics
›THE ROYAL WEDDING Lyrics
›THE DOCKS Lyrics
›THE JUDGEMENT HALL Lyrics
›ELABORATE LIVES (Reprise) Lyrics
›THE INTERIOR OF THE TOMB Lyrics
›ENCHANTMENT PASSING THROUGH (Reprise) Lyrics
›EVERY STORY (Reprise) Lyrics
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