Elton John - Like Father Like Son lyrics

Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by tim rice<br>Elton's solo version is unreleased<br><br>Like father, like son<br>Like father, like son<br>Like father, like son<br><br>Don't come on so cocksure boy, you can't escape your genes<br>No point in feeling purer boy, your background intervenes<br>Listen good and listen straight, you're not the master of your fate<br>To this you must be reconciled, you'll always be your father's child<br>At times acclaimed, at times reviled<br>You'll wind up doing just what I've done<br>Like father, like son<br>Like father, like son<br><br>Don't assume your vices get handed down the line<br>That a parent's blood suffices to condemn the child's design<br>I've done wrong, I can't deny, but at least I know that i<br>Shouldn't blame that on my stock, this may come as quite a shock<br>But I'm no chip off any block, I wouldn't wish those words on anyone<br>Like father, like son<br>Like father, like son<br><br>Son, you're nervous, take my hand<br>All is settled, all is planned<br>You've got the world at your command<br>I don't think you understand<br><br>Just have the slave if you must, and be done with her<br>Don't ever speak of her like that again<br><br>I appreciate too well, the squalor at which you excel<br>It isn't very hard to tell, evil's a distinctive smell<br><br>From this day on I choose my own way<br>If I choose to be with aida, then I will be<br>And no one, not you, not even the gods can stop me<br><br>He's lost all sense of reason, and why? some foreign slut<br>Not only is that treason, some doors are slamming shut<br>Just like me, he's found that flesh can excite but will enmesh<br>Watch me rid him of this blight, once the harlot's out of sight<br>Then I think he will see the light<br>He won't walk back to daddy, he will run<br>Like father, like son<br>Like father, like son<br>Like father, like son<br>Like father, like son