Text Mesh won't sit behind my object

As my question says I am trying to have some text hide behind an object that will be a pair are a curtains and appear when they open. Currently (as you can see from the image I have attached) it doesn’t, also I am not, at the moment using any scripts to animate on a button or key press. I am just letting it run when I click play.
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I am just echoing what @Robertbu posted as a comment. This is the solution that worked for me: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=3DText