Better Off Without A Wife by Tom Waits Song Details

Tom Waits's ' "Better Off Without A Wife" was released on its scheduled release date, October 21, 1975. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:58, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. There are a total of 18 in the song's album "Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered)". In this album, this song's track order is #8. Better Off Without A Wife is below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With Better Off Without A Wife by Tom Waits having a BPM of 79 with a half-time of 40 BPM and a double-time of 158 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of F♯ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 2B. So, the perfect camelot match for 2B would be either 2B or 3A. While, 3B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 11B and a high energy boost can either be 4B or 9B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 2A or 1B will give you a low energy drop, 5B would be a moderate one, and 12B or 7B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 11A allows you to change the mood.

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