Can't delete music on phone and the songs don't show up in iTunes

I've had this problem before and found no solution, so this time I'm going to ask and see if someone else has the same issue. It's not any of the usual problems, so I ended up restoring my phone to an earlier point and it worked, but I don't want to have to do it again.
Okay so the problem I have is there is music in my music app on my phone that doesn't show up in iTunes in the "on my device" section.  I listened to music on my phone that I had streamed from the cloud, when you do the "show all music" thing and can play all of your purchased songs.  Then when I turn off "show all music" there are random songs that I had streamed but didn't download.  I can't swipe left to delete them on my phone, and they don't show up in iTunes as even being on my phone.  I can't find a way to erase them.  I think they are stored in the "other" section of phone storage because now "other" is larger than it was.
The last time this happened I had to restore my iPhone to a point before this problem occurred and I lost my messages and new contacts and what not.  I have a feeling this is not a user fixable problem, but a problem on apple's end.  If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
Thanks

You're welcome. If that method isn't quick enough you can always delete the whole conversation.

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