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