"Paraffin" is the first single by British trip hop/industrial band Ruby, from their debut album, Salt Peter (1995).

The inside of the single jacket contains the following words: The phrase "I can speak so softly because I hold so much power" is the last lyric from the song "Heidi" on Ruby's first album Salt Peter.

Everett True from Melody Maker felt that "Paraffin" "does possess a certain unsteady grace, a certain velveteen charm".

[2] Another Melody Maker editor, Taylor Parkes, called it "a pretty little modern pop thing, chukka-chukka-bang and a sweet sloping chorus and halfway-intriguing, probably half-baked lyrics about flower thieves in the back yard and old men poking bony fingers in people's eyes; elsewhere things are deeper and more unlikely.

"[3] Simon Williams from NME wrote, "'Paraffin' is a stupendously contemporary record for someone who was last spotted hanging out with Ministry in Chicago, flirting as it is with appropriate remixes, and all manner of groovy chilled-out tinklings.