“We will leave the empty chairs to those who say we can't sit there; we're fine all by ourselves.”

—  Alessia Cara

Source: "Wild Things" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De30ET0dQpQ, Know-It-All (2015), New York: Def Jam Recordings

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