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“Veil of Lies” is a slow-burning rock ballad that explores the emotional and societal impact of misinformation and declining education. The song builds gradually from intimate verses to sweeping choruses, using repetition and spacious arrangement to evoke quiet urgency. It reflects on how distorted truths and neglected learning shape our world, while offering a subtle but powerful call to awaken, question, and rebuild.

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Veil of Lies – Lyrics  

Verse 1  
In a world of headlines, truth gets sold  
Wrapped in stories, bought and told  
We scroll through shadows, never see  
The cracks beneath reality  

Pre-Chorus  
And when the light begins to fade  
We lose the questions we once made  

Chorus  
Veil of lies, across our eyes  
When learning dies, the silence cries  
We chase the light, but fall behind  
If truth is lost, what will we find?  

Verse 2  
They echo fear in empty halls  
Where no one listens when it calls  
We teach the doubt, forget the flame  
And wonder why we feel the shame  

Pre-Chorus 2  
A generation left to drift  
No anchor strong enough to lift  

Chorus  
Veil of lies, across our eyes  
When learning dies, the silence cries  
We chase the light, but fall behind  
If truth is lost, what will we find?  

Verse 3  
Where fractured voices twist the spin  
And half-truths pull the crowd within  
If minds stay bare, if hearts don’t care  
We feed the storm that waits out there  

Bridge  
So raise your voice, don’t let it fade  
Let knowledge be the vow we’ve made  
The seeds of truth, we plant them deep  
To wake the world from restless sleep  

Final Chorus  
Veil of lies, across our eyes  
When learning dies, the silence cries  
We chase the light, but fall behind  
If truth is lost, what will we find?  

Outro  
In quiet halls, we speak again  
Through truth and light, we break the chain  

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© Lyrics and concept by Martin Oliver Beinersdorf, 2025. All rights reserved.

Veil of Lies

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God Is on the Move

Great songwriters spend their lives baring their souls onto the page, hoping some sliver of truth reaches and resonates with the masses.

But for Matthew West, multiple ASCAP Christian Music Songwriter/Artist of the Year winner, American Music Award and Billboard Music Award winner and four-time GRAMMY® nominee, the masses have come to him, baring their souls and sharing their stories.

And forever changing the way he approaches the music he makes.

Produced by Pete Kipley (MercyMe, Crowder, Phil Wickam, Robert Randolph) Live Forever finds Matthew West digging deeper into the well of stories —over 40,000 true stories shared with him by people

all over the world—stories that six years and three albums later have had a profound ripple effect.

“If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that storytelling is contagious,” West says. “So many people have been made to feel that their story is insignificant, that they don’t matter, or that their story is somehow disqualified because they’ve got too many messed up parts to it, and ‘Why would it matter?’”

But West has answered that question before in Story of Your Life (2010), Into the Light (2012) and now in Live Forever. “Each story told, awakens something in people who have yet to find the courage to tell their own,” he shares. “They begin thinking, ‘If God can use that person’s story, maybe He could use mine,’ and a chain reaction begins. One story goes out and more stories come back. One by one, these songs encourage people to be the storytellers in their own lives, wherever they are, because your story can help someone else and their story can help someone else. Telling our stories reminds us that we are not alone.”

He continues, “With my last two records, I was inspired by chapters in our stories that have already been written: life in a broken home, the loss of a loved one, forgiving someone who has hurt you, the guilt of past mistakes. Many people share with me the chapters that are behind them, the ones that still haunt them, ones that haven’t found redemption yet. With Live Forever, I felt it was time to acknowledge that none of us have a perfect story. Every story has its share of broken chapters. But then ask the questions, ‘Is this it? Are we just supposed to walk wounded through the rest of our stories?’ We could spend the rest of our lives focusing on the past, or we could dare to look ahead, and choose to believe that with God we’ve been given a chance to start new, and the best of our stories have yet to be written.”

This is the direction West had in mind as he returned to that cabin in the woods of Tennessee, a songwriter’s retreat where his previous two albums were envisioned. To make a record bursting with color and life – not just the life we have here, but the life that is to come. “With so much defeat all around us, people need to know there is victory. Maybe my job in reading a lot of these desperate stories is to extract the hope. I wanted to write songs that encourage people to remember that this life is not the destination. It’s a journey to the place of our ultimate hope, Heaven. This was a very decisive record in that way.”

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