Play for pay isn't new for Paul McCartney. In fact, the musician has a talent for turning contractual obligations into catchy tunes, like "Live and Let Die" and "Wonderful Christmas Time." The Beatles' only performance in Kansas City happened on a scheduled off day because the band couldn't refuse the ridiculous amount of money thrown at them by Charles Finley, the owner of the Kansas City Athletics, who went from an offer of $60,000 to $150,000 — at the time, the single highest payment for a single performance. The band's song "Kansas City" would later appear, fittingly, on "Beatles for Sale."

Anyway, the point is McCartney is familiar with taking good money for a big job and doing fine with it. So it's surprising how mediocre, if not outright bad, this Destiny song is. I mean, it's like McCartney's reading from my junior high poetry journal:

We will build bridges

Up to the sky

Heavenly light surrounding you and I

And

Some hope for the future

Some wait for the call

To say that our destiny

Will be the best of all

Was he required to say "Destiny" and "best of all" in the same sentence?

Please don't let this be the last song Paul McCartney writes. If it is, I'll never forgive Activision, Bungie and whatever management team brokered this deal.

Thanks to Kilo Juliett for uploading this footage from Destiny's credits sequence.

Update September 11th, 8:40PM: UMG's pulled the original video, but it's been reposted numerous times elsewhere. Things pick up around 2:15 in the one below: