Lyric discussion by suckmykiss 

Cover art for Vasoline lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

this song sounds like it could be a reference to beating it to porn. what's real and what's for sale....he realized that actual sex is different from looking in girly mags and spanking it. then of course the talk of vaseline, and the going blind line....hey that could be a reference to how people used to say you go blind if you wack off too much.

seriously, i'm kidding. i doubt scott weiland would devote an entire song about that, and then release it as a single.

also why do they spell it vasoline with an o?

someone in the band probaly mis spelt it.. then everyone else in the band pointed out the mis spelling... they all laughed and decided to keep it like that for the hell of it... thats what i envision at least for the reasoning behind the spelling

why the heck did you give an "interpretation" of this song which is clearly wrong and then say you were kidding all along? what's the point? is it just an excuse to bring porn into the conversation? pretty feeble attempt if you ask me.

btw i agree with HalfLifeSuicide's comment, it's clearly about how what you try to find can be so inconspicuous.

Obviously a song about love and how it seems to be so hard to find. "Flies in the vasoline" is a metaphor for the often futile attempt to find real love, hence the flies stuck in vaseline in the beginning of the video.

"Blew a kiss and tried to take it home"... "Think I'd be safer all alone"... come on, it's not that hard to figure out.