All Is Fair

Album: A Million Lights (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Cheryl explained that this Jim Beanz and Candice Nelson penned stripped-back ballad is one for the British soldiers. "Just being there and supporting us through everything," she told Pop Justice. As soon as I heard the chorus 'this is war' I knew I was meant to sing it."
  • The song was originally titled "This is War."

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