I cannot delete songs from Music on my iPad 2 iOS 7

I swipe from right to left and choose delete. The song is still there with a cloud and down arrow. How can I remove songs from Music on the iPad 2?

I have spent the last two nights trawling forums for an answer and what I have finally found had worked, wasn't actually mentioned anywhere so I feel like I have to share it in case it helps someone else, I was going crazy!!
Firstly, you will need to put all of the music you currently want on your ipad into a playlist in itunes on the computer you're syncing with. This is a sort of start again from scratch type approach seeing as nothing else seemed to work.
1. I turned off my home sharing from settings - music
2. I went to settings - general - usage - music - edit (in top right) - swipe to delete all music
3. Connected to a computer and opened itunes.
4. On the summary page, scroll down to options and select manually manage music and videos. Click APPLY.
5. On the music page untick the sync music box CLICK APPLY.
6. On the on this ipad page, highlight all music (ctrl A) and DEL - it will ask if you want to remove, click ok.
7. Still on the on this ipad page, see the autofill line at the bottom? Click on settings at the right hand side, there is a sliding bar to determine how much space you want to leave free on your ipad for disk space. Then simply select the playlist with all your music in that you want on your ipad to autofill from.
8.Click SYNC.
Huzzah!
I hope thats helped someone else I was literally tearing my hair out over it. It's worked for me, although there is still some music on the on my ipad list, in a faded grey, which isnt actually on my ipad. So thats annoying but not the end of the world.
Apple - it really shouldnt be this difficult!

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