Why are my matched songs with downward arrow using mac disk space

I have 1159 songs in my iTunes library which takes up over 16 GB of space on my macbook air SSD. Of those 499 are matched with 451  showing "matched" as well as the cloud icon with a downward arrow which I thought meant that they were not stored locally and needed to be streamed.  So why are those 451 taking up 4.13 GB of precious SSD space. The same situation exists with my purchased and uploaded songs which make up the other 11 GB of SSD space. If I try to delete the song I get:
“Are you sure you want to delete this item from iCloud? This will delete this item from all your iTunes Match devices".
Maybe I don’t understand iTunes Match but I thought one of the advantages  was that it freed storage space on your macs and iOS deices.

So now I have completed deleting the duplicates. I’m not sure it made any difference because now the 39 songs which were greyed out and waiting have uploaded and I still have over 14GB of iTunes on my completely full macbook air SSD
58 songs are downloaded using 484.6 MB which is fine.  It is the other 908 songs showing the cloud with the downward arrow which take up 13.83 GB that I want to get rid of.  The only problem is that if I try to delete them I get the message:
“ Are you sure you want to delete this item from iCloud? This will delete this item from all of your iTunes Match devices.”
So how can I delete them and leave them on iCloud? 
I did try something you recommended elsewhere, holding down the SHIFT and turning off iTunes Match and then adding the computer again, but there was no improvement.

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