Can't open song. Error says song is "damaged".

Help!
Last night, I created a song, locked all tracks and exported it to iTunes. When I went to Garageband today, I was unable to open my new song. When the error popped up, it stated that the song was unable to be open because "it is damaged."
Is there any way to recover this? The song itself isn't even in the same folder as all of the rest of my Garageband songs (I never moved it). I could only find it somewhere on my hard drive using Finder.
Would locking the tracks changed things? I've never locked tracks on a song before. I'm pretty new to Garageband, but I have a handful of songs created. This is the 1st time this sort of error has popped up.) The song is still in iTunes in .aif .
Thanks for your help!

Well, I tried that, but there is no "show contents" spot to click on. The kicker in all of this is that the only file I have is no longer where the rest of my garageband songs usually reside. Once I found this problem song in Finder, I tried to click on it to open it, but the error popped up. I then moved it to my desktop for future attempts. Just to be sure I understood your advice, I went into the regular garageband folder and I saw where "show contents" should be and found other media files.
I have no idea why this song disappeared. It's not even available under the regular spot when I try to "open existing project" on GB. It's gone.
Does this mean I'm out of luck?

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