“Obvious Bicycle” depicts the life of a man who has lost hope in life while growing, believing he is so small in a vast world, and that he has no importance. One could see this song as the bookend to a song from their self-titled album, “One (Blake’s Got A New Face),” which was apparently about an acquaintance then at Stanford. On the Vampire Weekend Reddit AMA, Ezra Koenig described the “Obvious Bicycle” narrator as a grown-up/wizened version of the narrators of earlier Vampire Weekend songs:

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