Like Father, like Son

[ENSEMBLE]
Like father, like son
Like father, like son

[ZOSER]
Don't come on so cocksure, boy
You can't escape your genes
There's no point in feeling pure, boy
Your background intervenes

Now 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 as I have 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
I shouldn't blame that on my stock
Well, this may come as quite a shock

But 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

[RADAMES]
I appreciate too well
The squalor at which you excel
It isn't very hard to tell
Evil's a distinctive smell

[ZOSER]
He's lost all sense of reason
And why? Some foreign slut!
Not only is that treason
Some doors are slamming shut

Now, just like me, he's found that flesh
Can excite, but will enmesh
Once we rid him of this blight
Once that 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 & ENSEMBLE]
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son!