Previously: Which girl is most like a child?

Related: All the words.

Some men are born on the road. Some men die there. Some men cannot be held down, for they will melt through your fingers and reassemble several yards away. These men are powerful witches and should be humored at all costs.

Song: “Take It Easy,” The Eagles
How much of a wanderer is he? “Well, I’m running down the road trying to loosen my load/ got a world of trouble on my mind.”
Who’s trying to hold him back? Six, possibly seven women. “Four that wanna own me/ Two that wanna stone me/ One says she’s a friend of mine.” It remains to be seen whether the woman who claims to be a friend can be trusted. Not sure if I like the sound of the girl in the flatbed Ford, either.
Overall freedom quotient: Like Atlas, he carries the burden of the earth entire with him wherever he goes. Seven — the same number as the lamps lit in the book of Revelation — harpies of the Cities of the Plain pursue him. He must get free or die.

Song: “Freebird,” Lynyrd Skynyrd
How much of a wanderer is he? “For I must be travelin’ on now/ There’s too many places I got to see/ If I stay here with you girl/ Things just couldn’t be the same/ ‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now/ And this bird you cannot change.”
Who’s trying to hold him back? His girl. “Bye and bye baby, it’s been sweet love, yeah yeah/ Though this feelin’ I can’t change/ Please don’t take it so badly.”
Overall freedom quotient: This man is so free he has become a bird, the most unnatural of all the animals. He can never change back to his human form; he cannot change. He is simultaneously free (soaring through the air) and unfree (in his bird-body prison).

Song: “Goodbye Stranger,” Supertramp
How much of a wanderer is he? “Like a king without a castle/ Like a queen without a throne/ I’m an early morning lover/ And I must be moving on.”
Who’s trying to hold him back? A stranger — “Goodbye stranger, it’s been nice/ Hope you find your paradise/ Tried to see your point of view/ Hope your dreams will all come true” — and also possibly Mary and Jane.
Overall freedom quotient: Deeply and profoundly free. As free as a ship; as free as a ransomed slave. He can say goodbye to anyone and wish them well, for they cannot hold him back, whether they will or no. Everyone is a stranger to him, for he has no home.

Song: “I Got A Name,” Jim Croce
How much of a wanderer is he? “Moving me down the highway, rolling me down the highway/ Moving ahead so life won’t pass me by.”
Who’s trying to hold him back? THEY (damn them!), always THEY. “They can change their minds but the can’t change me/ I got a dream, I got a dream.”
Overall freedom quotient: Terribly free. His only possessions are a name and a dream; he can outrun life itself on the open road. Who moves him? He moves him.

Song: “I’m Free,” The Who
How much of a wanderer is he? “I’m free/ I’m free/ And freedom tastes of reality.”
Who’s trying to hold him back? Everyone, but mostly you. “If I told you what it takes/ To reach the highest high/ You’d laugh and say ‘nothing’s that simple.'”
Overall freedom quotient: The man can taste freedom. Taste it! With his mouth!

Song: “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” Bob Seger
How much of a wanderer is he? “Cause I was born lonely down by the riverside/ Learned to spin fortune wheel and throw dice/ And I was just thirteen when I had to leave home/ Knew I couldn’t stick around, had to roam.”
Who’s trying to hold him back? “I got to keep movin’, never gonna slow down/ You can have your funky world, see ya ’round.” Like a shark, Bob Seger must stay in continual motion, lest he sink to the bottom of the sea and drown.
Overall freedom quotient: He is so free that he will die without freedom; he cannot live otherwise. He spins wheels and flings dice into rivers like some horrible amalgam of Tom Bombadil and Kenny Rogers’ Gambler.

Winner: Supertramp. Even the name is nomadic. His only home is the road; the road is his home. No woman — be she stranger, Jane, or Mary, who are the only kinds of woman that there are — can change him or hold him back. She can buy him castles, and he will not be moved. Other men are free, but he is the freest of them all. Freer even than the birds. Wave to him as he passes you by, for he will not stop to talk.