Can't I Rest Now?

You need me
My help
To deny you is to lose you
To give another life to it
My love I've lost
And you can't let me mourn
Or be free of it
Because only I can face it
And you need my help

But I don't want to fight
I haven't got the will
But to lie back down
Would kill you, my friend
And this cop would let
The bad guys walk

The ball and chain
Of Destiny and Fate
Are far outweighed by the burdens
Of Duty and Love
All four weigh me down
I am slave to their pull
Can't I rest now, Daddy?
Can't someone else fight from here?
This shield,
Your shield
Doesn't protect me the same
The claw of the gauntlet
Can't be stopped by it
The claw saves me
While it wounds me
Cuts at my insides
But it shields me
More than this golden shield can
While it kills me, it can save
It takes my love
But can save my friend
From this Fate

I want to bow out
Return to where I was laid
But I've come to see
My power
And why the claw chose me