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..
Noun [edit]. beast â(plural beasts). 1  Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. ( 2 more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. 3  1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 1.