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..
Word Origin and History for brute. adj. early 15c., of or belonging to animals, from Middle French brut coarse, brutal, raw, crude, from Latin brutus heavy, dull, stupid, an Oscan word, from PIE root *gwere- heavy (see grave (adj.)). Before reaching English the meaning expanded to of the lower animals.. Used of human beings from 1530s.