Why Do I Always Want The Things That I Can't Have by Tom Odell Song Details

Tom Odell's 'Why Do I Always Want The Things That I Can't Have' had a release date set for October 10, 2025. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:41, 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. The song is number 5 out of 12 in A Wonderful Life (Epilogue) by Tom Odell. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, Why Do I Always Want The Things That I Can't Have's popularity is average in popularity right now. Although the overall vibe is very danceable, it does project more negative sounds.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Why Do I Always Want The Things That I Can't Have by Tom Odell is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 133 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. 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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