I suggest you listen to "Journey To The Center Of The Mind" by the Amboy Dukes.
Yeah but that doesn’t mean he ever drank or did drugs. That was the style of music back then. He played it a few years ago in a Amboy dukes reunion, everyone looks like they are 80 years old now lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEJp2BsaeiE
Ted didn’t write it, he was 17 at the time, and admitted at the time he was real naive about what the song was about.