Like Father Like Son

Elton John


Complexity: 66 Readability: 66.67   Sentiment: -4   Word Count: 324   Unique Words: 176
Original Lyrics Munged Lyrics
Lyrics by Tim Rice

Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son

Don't come on so cocksure boy, you can't escape your genes
No point in feeling purer boy, your background in
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[bulk of lyrics omitted for copyright reasons]
Lyrics buy Tim Rice

Like farther, like sun
Like farther, like sun
Like farther, like sun

Don't come on sew cocksure buoy, yew can't escape yaw jeans
Know point inn feeling purer buoy, yaw background intervenes
Listen good and listen strait, yaw knot the master of yaw fête
Too this yew must bee reconciled, yule always bee yaw father's child
At times acclaimed, at times reviled
Yule wind up doing just watt I've dun
Like farther, like sun
Like farther, like sun

Don't assume yaw vices get handed down the line
That a parent's blood suffices too condemn the child's design
I've dun wrong, Eye can't deny, butt at least Eye no that Eye
Shouldn't blame that on my stock, this may come as quite a shock
Butt I'm know chip off any bloc, Eye wouldn't wish those words on anyone
Like farther, like sun
Like farther, like sun

Sun, yaw nervous, take my hand
Awl is settled, awl is planned
You've got the whirled at yaw command
Eye don't think yew understand

Just have the slave if yew must, and bee dun with her
Don't ever speak of her like that again

Eye appreciate two well, the squalor at witch yew excel
It isn't very hard too tell, evil's a distinctive smell

From this day on Eye choose my own weigh
If Eye choose too bee with Aida, then Eye will bee
And know won, knot yew, knot even the gods can stop mi

He's lost awl sense of reason, and why ? sum foreign slut
Knot only is that treason, sum doors are slamming shut
Just like mi, he's found that flesh can excite butt will enmesh
Watch mi rid hymn of this blight, once the harlot's out of cite
Then Eye think he will sea the light
He won't walk back too daddy, he will run
Like farther, like sun
Like farther, like sun
Like farther, like sun
Like farther, like sun