Songfacts®:

• In the early '80s, words were under attack from female-fronted synthpop bands. In 1982, Missing Persons, with lead singer Dale Bozzio, released "Words," where she asked: "What are words for when no one listens anymore?"
  
  In 1984, Berlin, fronted by Terri Nunn, released "No More Words," where she tells her man to stop using his words and take some action. And no more promises of love.
• "No More Words" was written by John Crawford, the bass player and primary songwriter in Berlin. He was happy with the song but couldn't get the production to pop, so he convinced their label to hire the electro-pop pioneer Giorgio Moroder to produce it. Moroder made his mark producing Donna Summer's 1970s hits, including "Love To Love You Baby," which inspired the 1982 Berlin hit "Sex (I'm A...)."
  
  Morodor was hired, and he shaped "No More Words" into a hit using his distinctive style. He ended up being a main character in Berlin's story when he went looking for a vocalist for a song he wrote and produced for the 1986 movie Top Gun: "Take My Breath Away." He asked Berlin lead singer Terri Nunn to take a crack at it, and she was the clear winner. That song was credited to Berlin but Nunn was the only band member who had anything to do with it. When the song became a #1 hit it caused a rift in the band that led to their breakup in 1987.
• "No More Words" was the lead single from Berlin's third album, Love Life. Their debut album, released in 1980, didn't have Terri Nunn on board and got little attention. They found their sound on their second album, Pleasure Victim in 1982, which found a following thanks to the tracks "Sex (I'm A...)" and "The Metro." But according to Terri Nunn, there was a lot of personal and creative conflict surrounding the Love Life album. By the time they released their next album, Count Three & Pray in 1986, their lineup was culled from six members to three.
  
  After their breakup in 1987, Nunn went solo and most of the band members entered other fields. Nunn gained control of the name in the late '90s and rebooted the band with a different lineup, which didn't go over well with founder John Crawford. In 2016, Crawford and Nunn buried the hatchet and reconstituted Berlin with another member from their '80s lineups, Dave Diamond.
• Berlin's music videos did pretty well, thanks in part to the thespian talents of John Crawford and Terri Nunn. The "No More Words" video casts them as Great Depression-era criminals, providing some intriguing imagery that has absolutely nothing to do with the lyrics.