IPad won't play or delete some songs

I need some help. I have an iPad 4 running iOS 6.1. I had some music on it which I had downloaded from the iTunes music store (iCloud). Everything was fine until today. I had just downloaded a song from iTunes (iCloud) and I noticed the music app showed two copies of the song. I swiped to delete and one copy went away. The problem was that the other copy wouldn't play. It just skipped to the next song. I couldn't delete it either. It just wouldn't go away. I eventually tried connecting to my PC and doing various syncs with iTunes on my PC but nothing makes it go away. I can sync the song back from iTunes on my PC, but that just gives me two copies again. Furthermore, I have two more songs like that that I've found. One of them was another song I downloaded from iTunes (iCloud) to test something while trying to get the first song to go away. Same thing. I saw two copies of the song appear instead of one, deleted one and the other copy stays there and cannot be deleted. These songs are invisible in iTunes on my computer when I connect it to my iPad.
I've tried turning it off and on with the music app stopped (hold down the button to see running apps, hold the icon, click the minus). I've tried the reset (hold both buttons for 10 seconds). I've tried backing up and restoring from iTunes with various settings based on forum threads I have read. I've synced music multiple times. Nothing has worked. The only two things I can think of I have not tried are restoring to factory settings and restoring from a previous iCloud backup.
One thing I have seen searching on the net is that this seems to happen a lot with iTunes Match. I DO NOT and have NEVER had iTunes Match.
Any ideas?

I had the same problem you are having and got it solved. In fact, this also helped me solving the " iTunes cannot backup ... because a backup can't be saved on the computer" I long had!
My issue was related to iMatch.
I had deleselected iMatch on the configuration on my iPad, waited until it synched, and then deleted all other songs yet on my library. After all cleaned up, accessing the Music app would give the message "no songs...".
Then I re-selected iMatch and waited for it to sync again. A few minutes later, to my surprise, there were all the very same songs. They showed up as download and once again, they couldn't be deleted nor played. This was cleary a iMtach bug!
I went to my Mac and opened iTunes. I located those few songs that wouldn't play or couldn't be deleted in the iPad on my iTunes Master library. I notice that their Cloud icon had an exclamation mark on. I simply copied them to another folder (just select and move it to your desktop or folder), then I asked to delete it each one of them both from my library as well as iMatch. To do this you have to select the option "hide from iMatch" or something like it.
As I was doing it, I could see them synching and disapearing from my iPad at the same time. Finally I got rid of them!
As result, I could also finally backup my iPad.
I am still working on getting theses songs backs to my list, I will either rip again from my CDs or just move them back from the folder I initially saved them.
Hope that helps!

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I had deleselected iMatch on the configuration on my iPad, waited until it synched, and then deleted all other songs yet on my library. After all cleaned up, accessing the Music app would give the message "no songs...".
Then I re-selected iMatch and waited for it to sync again. A few minutes later, to my surprise, there were all the very same songs. They showed up as download and once again, they couldn't be deleted nor played. This was cleary a iMtach bug!
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As I was doing it, I could see them synching and disapearing from my iPad at the same time. Finally I got rid of them!
As result, I could also finally backup my iPad.
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