Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Bob Seger wrote and performed it.
brute(Noun) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. brute(Noun) Someone with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed I just got out of jail..
beast(Noun) Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates. Especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. beast(Noun) (more specific) a domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal: beast(Noun) A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.