I cant delete a song I bought on iTunes

I bought a song on iTunes on my ipad, and now I want to delete it. iTunes match is disabled and I have no songs from the iCloud. All my other sons I can delete by swiping left but this one particular song does not slide and There is no delete button! What do I do?
I have tried closing the app and also restarting the iPad.

I've noticed this myself in a few tracks.
The inability to edit is frustrating.
I found that if I went to the actual file in its folder and did Get Info, the file was locked. I clicked the "lock" icon and then I had permission to read and write. However, it required me to close and reopen the iTunes application for the change to take effect.
And I was not able to delete from within the itunes library -- had to actually delete from the folder was well. Again the "delete" didn't take effect until itunes was restarted at which point the exclamation point indicated the track couldn't be located and I could delete the phantom.

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