Why can I not delete songs off my itunes?

I swipe and delete but the songs are stll there and my phone still plays the songs. It has the icloud symbol on the side like it's telling me I need to reload the song but it won't go away!

If you do turn off "Show All Music" and these items are still present, but still won't delete, you may need to take a few extra steps to get rid of them.  In my experience, tapping the cloud to download a song makes it hard to delete the song -- they may not even show up on the device while connected to iTunes.
Some users have reported that signing out of your iTunes/App account on the iPhone, then signing back in lets them clear these songs.  I did not try that, but in my case I had to manually drag and drop songs from my iTunes library to my iPhone, then the downloaded song showed up in the "Manually added songs" category on the Music tab (where you set your sync settings).  Then and only then could I remove the cloud-downloaded songs.  Just keep this in mind if the above suggestion does not help.

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