As the sun rises, she opens up her hazel-beautiful eyes and begins Her baby cries, she picks him up and tells him beautiful lies again She come from the favela, hills of Santa Teresa Underneath the Redeemer and the sun in the sky She come from the favela, hills of Santa Teresa Underneath the Redeemer where the elves come alive She walk the favela night She walk the favela night Favela She walk the favela night And the wind blows, she lives on lonely streets where nobody goes alone Just a young girl, born on the left side of this right-handed world She knows She come from the favela, hills of Santa Teresa Underneath the Redeemer and the sun in the sky She come from the favela, hills of Santa Teresa Underneath the Redeemer where the elves come alive She walk the favela night Favela She walk the favela night Favela Deep in the colours and the streets, lost in the funk, favela beats, prisionera Dancing in the favela Sleep in the Ipanema bays, we raise a glass on holiday It's a love side of world, when you're a girl, born into nothing at all She come from the favela, hills of Santa Teresa Underneath the Redeemer and the sun in the sky She come from the favela, ask me I will answer Underneath the Redeemer where the elves come alive She walk the favela night Favela She walk the favela night Favela She walk the favela night