My iTunes library is gone on my iPhone and only some purchase iTunes are able to be played?

I am getting an error message when I try to play on some songs that I purchased. Some of my iTunes play whole other have a red biz next to the song. Also my whole iTunes library is now gone?

connect to itunes let it sync
once its finished go to itunes library and fing the eye supervillan song and clck on it and click delete on keyboard. then click keep file. then snyc your device again. check your iphone after snyc and click music and see if you find the song again

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