| Don't Tell Me You Love Me | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Night Ranger |
| Album: | Dawn Patrol |
| B-Side: | Night Ranger |
| Released: | December 1982 |
| Genre: | Hard rock[1] |
| Length: | 4:19 (album version) 3:37 (radio edit) |
| Label: | Boardwalk, MCA |
| Producer: | Pat Glasser |
| Next Title: | Sing Me Away |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
"Don't Tell Me You Love Me" is a song by Night Ranger written by Jack Blades from their 1982 album, Dawn Patrol. It was released as a single in December 1982.[2]
The song was re-recorded for the music video game Rock Band and was released as downloadable content.
Singer Jack Blades was thinking about a hypothetical relationship that is "fun and happy" until one person confesses they love the other, at which point tension begins. He wrote the chorus first, followed by a few verses. He didn't think he had written enough lyrics, but his producer convinced him he had conveyed the message of the song sufficiently in those few words.[3]
The song's music video that was played on MTV, which shows the band performing the song on rail tracks in front of an oncoming train, was directed by Daniel Halperin[4] and produced by Paul Flattery.A live video for the song was released in 2016 to promote the live album 35 Years and a Night in Chicago.[5]