Some of my songs on iPhone are skipped and won't play

Some of my songs won't play on my iPhone. It will just skip over them and then I try and go back to play them it does nothing. All of my songs are downloaded from iTunes and at one point worked. I cannot figure out why some all of a sudden just won't play. I've tried re-syncing with my iTunes on my mac but that didn't help.

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The exclamation mark appears if the song has been moved, renamed, deleted or is at a location that is currently inaccessible such as a disconnected external drive or network share. You have to restore iTunes' access to the file before you can add it to a playlist.
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