Aida - Like Father Like Son and Radames' Letter

AIDA

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
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

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!
That is the road called 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...

RADAMES' LETTER:
Radames:

I'm sorry for everything I've said
And for anything I forgot to say
When things get so complicated
I stumble at best muddle through
I wish that our lives could be simple
I don't want the world only you

Oh I wish I could tell you this face to face
But there's never the time never the place
So this letter will have to do
I love you....

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[DarianL]

ZOSER!!! I played that role my senior year in High School. My college is holding auditions this week for this show....I'm going to audition but i think i want Mereb this time =D

[IamQueenMab]

@DarianL  good luckk! ;)

[brigmahf]

Trying out for Zoser on the 10th :) I had never heard of this play before, his singing style is definitely NOT what I expected. This should be interesting...

[IamQueenMab]

ha...good luck 2 u 2! :}

[eanimation]

Hmm... I'm actually going to audition for Zoser tommorrow. Hopefully I can get all the notes right too.

[IamQueenMab]

ha...good luck! :)

[MaskedMan66]

I would be delighted to see a rendition of this song performed by Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. Leave out the last verse, though.

[justinmoe7]

Just got the part Zoser... interesting

[stupidbb4]

I just got the understudy role for Zoser for my junior year muscial. Even though he only sings two songs, they give me goosebumps EVERY time I listen to them. Gonna have fun with this one!

[ninjamooseofthemist]

There are a lot of Zosers on this page...

[EAbaseball14]

Just got cast for Zoser in my high school's musical. Can't wait to get started, I love this song.

[LilyTigerR]

Listening to this musical and Ferngully made my day :-D

[LilyTigerR]

I saw this musical tonight at a high school that's not mine. I love it! It's my new favorite!!! But I must ask, did Egyptians have leather?

[candygleek]

My school is doing this musical right now, I'm backstage but me and my friends always lip sing to this song, especially the line "for what? some foreign slut!" it’s the best line ever!

[emsterthefirst]

woww i wish someone would sing to me radames' letter xDDD

[TooBOOCOO16]

I played radames in my musical this year, and i love the love letter, its so pretty :)

[AydenSings77]

@DarianL

Yay! go for mereb!

He is so much fun to act, he is so serius but at the same time is extreamlly funny, I played mereb in our school production.