ITunes songs won't play on iPhone 5

I've had my iPhone 5 for about a year now.  Never had this trouble before switching to this unit.  Never took the time to try and figure out the problem, as I knew it would be a long drawn out process over the phone, but this has been an issue since day 1.  I'm missing my music...and I'm ready to listen to my purchases again!!
My music is in my iTunes account on my computer...in the library.  However, on my iPhone, only a small percentage of the songs are available to be played.  All others are greyed out.
I searched the discussions here and saw a post that said that maybe I need to authorize my computer.  Did that, didn't change anything.  I restored the iPhone back to original settings and then back to my backup file.  Still not able to play songs.
I also downloaded the songs from the purchased downloads in iTunes, all this did was duplicate my songs, and allow me to play the 500 songs that I can play now.
HELP!!!!  I'm VERY frustrated that I have almost 2000 songs, and only about 500 that I can play.  I paid for this music ($0.99 for some, $1.29 for most, that's well over $2000 spent)...I should be able to listen to my music...ON MY PHONE!!!

Ok SIMPLEST and EASIEST thing to do- this WILL solve your issue:
Go to Settings->General->Usage
Wait for it to populate all the things taking up space on your iPhone. Tap "Music" and then swipe your finger from left to right over the "music" bar. the red "Delete" button will appear. Tap it.
Wait about a minute then power off your phone.  Then power it back on.
Go to iTunes app on your device: then "More->Purchased->Music" you should be able to re-download ANY song bought.  If you don't re-download on Wi-Fi it will eat at your cellular data plan...be advised.

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