Can I recover lost song?

Okay, I've only had my iPod for a few weeks so I keep making a lot of rookie mistakes. I had about 2,000 songs loaded (some from my computer and some from my friend's computer) and started making playlist. For some reason, the playlist would show the songs as being shuffled on my computer but when I went to listen to the playlist on my iPod, they would play all the songs by artist is alphabetical order and not by the random songs. I thought I might have a setting wrong so I went into my options and set my iPod to automatically update songs and playlist without actually knowing what it would do. Next thing I knew, it was reloading my songs on my iPod but deleting the songs I had gotten from my friends computer. Is there a way to get all the original songs back on my iPod or are they gone forever?

Yes, they are gone forever. The iPod is set up to sync this way in an effort to slow the illegal copying and sharing of copyrighted music.
I would suggest that if you want the same music as your friend, you should go out and purchase the CDs as the music industry and Apple considers it 'stealing'.
Unfortunately, the Apple Discussions Terms of Use for these Forums explicitly prohibit anyone here from encouraging, or directly facilitating the 'sharing’ of copyrighted music as you describe and we or you can get our posts locked, removed, or be given a temporary or permanent vacation. Sorry.

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