ITunes music is showing as grey

When I click on My Music on iTunes, all the songs in my library are in grey so I can't delete them etc and can do nothing at all with them. Any ideas?

Hello stuartfromwillenhall,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
It appears that you want to download some previous purchases from iTunes. To download these items please see the directions in the article below.
Download past purchases
Cheers,
Alex H.

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