What does the cloud with a downward arrow mean?

Every morning i have a coloud with a downward arrow by a song. Sometimes it won't even let me play the song. I have synced my ipod touch and ipone to my laptop and songs are synced. But then randomly i can't play the ones that have the cloud with arrow. any suggestions?

It means the song was previously purchased from the iTunes store and is available for redownload.  It won't play because it hasn't yet been downloaded.  You can hide this by going to Settings>iTunes & App Store and turning Music off under Show All.
This should only happen with songs that are not stored on your iPod.  If you synced music is somehow being deleted from your iPod you might want to post a question over in the iPod Touch forum because this shouldn't be happening.

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