[VERSE 1] Now you can come visit any time of year And the sun is shining and the skies are clear If you're lookin for love you can find it here So give Diz a couple minutes up inside your ear I'm lookin for the light like a Jedi Knight So I'm headed for Brazil on a red-eyed flight Cause I gotta hit the festival (Tell em why) it's set to go Four whole days at a very high decibel We'll cut loose and dance in the streets All the way down to Copacabana Beach And when it's all over recovery mode I'm out in Ipanema to relax and reload Cause I think we got a UD show tomorrow And I have to go to São Paulo - I know Andy's at a soccer game, Rod's in a speedo I'm not Michael Caine but I'll Blame it on Rio [Chorus] You gotta go to Rio, go to Rio with me If you wanna carnival, carnival with me Cause you need to get away, get away with me And we're gonna do it now, do it now with me If you gotta go to Rio, go to Rio with me If you wanna carnival, carnival with me Cause you need to get away, get away with me To (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) [VERSE 2] Get off the sofa, let's bossanova Come and do la cosa nostra And we're gonna make it like presto Alakazaam, out with my man windjam on the catamaran It's Rio de Janeiro, nail the map with a thumb tack And before you unpack you wish you could come back (Why?) Because the weather's warm and toasty like an oven mitt And I'd be lyin if I said I wasn't lovin it Watch the palm trees sway in the breeze Beautiful girls talking to me in Portuguese I do mas que nada, which means the minimum Sipping Brazilian coffee with a bit of cinnamon Do you find the daily grind is inescapable? Have a rest from the stress [?] There's no other place to go (bro) it's the apex Talk to your boss and save up your paychecks We gotta Let's go, let's go Let's go, let's go Let's go, let's go We gotta go Let's go, let's go (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) [Chorus] You gotta go to Rio, go to Rio with me If you wanna carnival, carnival with me Cause you need to get away, get away with me And we're gonna do it now, do it now with me You gotta go to Rio, go to Rio with me If you wanna carnival, carnival with me Cause you need to get away, get away with me To (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) Young Einstein Sugarloaf Mountain Guanabara Bay Christo Redemptor