Composition
"Back to Tennessee" is one of the more rock music influenced tracks on Back to Tennessee. It is set in common time with a country rock tempo of 120 beats per minute. The song is written in the key of C major. The song has the following chord progression, C—C7—C.
Cyrus said of the lyrics, "If you download "Back to Tennessee" and listen to the whole song, you'll hear exactly how I felt after four years of Hannah Montana, and living in Los Angeles and giving up my previous life and existence and who I am and where I come from. You'll hear a guy who's immersed in music, and my love and desire and need to go back home." Jon Caramanica of The New York Times interpreted the song as an apology "both to teenage self and, by extension, to the daughter under his wing." Both Caramanica and Alison Stewart of The Washington Post took interest in the lines, "Great big town/So full of users". Caramanica said the line recognized that "fame is illusory" and "talk about some of his daughter’s famous friends", while Stewart interpreted the line as a description of Hollywood life in general.
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