I almost never pay attention to lyrics…just more of a melody guy.
For that reason, I can never sing along to songa because, well, I am an idiot and can’t understand most of them, or mis-understand.
I am pretty sure the lyrics are not, “Are you reeling in the yeast…” unless it is about a guy who is dating a woman with bad hygene. But I haven’t a clue as to what the real words are.
Reelin’ in the Years. Don’t worry, Steely Dan lyrics are notorious for being “things” people “can’t understand”.
If you check out this site, you’ll see that one contributor thought that the words were “Are you really into yeast?”, and that “Have you had enough of mine?” was misheard as “Have you had enough of mime?” These phenomena are known as mondegreens – check out this article for the derivation of the term.