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
Do you really want to throw away your future? All for some wretched slave!
RADAMES She has a name!
ZOSER In a few months, you won´t even be able to remember her name!
RADAMES I appreciate too well The squalor at which you excel it isn´t very hard to tell Evil´s a distinctive smell
You can forget about your plans, father. There will be no wedding!
(RADAMES storms off, leaving ZOSER horrified.)
ZOSER He´s lost all sense of reason, and why? Some foreign slut Not only is that 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...
ZOSER & MINISTERS Like Father, like son Like Father, like son Like Father, like
ZOSER Son (ZOSER turns to his men.) Find the slave girl called Aida. And when you do...kill her.
ACT TWO
Scene Four NUBIAN SLAVE CAMP
AIDA stands alone. Suddenly a slave woman appears outside the fence. She slips AIDA a folded note and disappears. AIDA begins to read and RADAMES appears in her imagination.
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