Why is Music.app streaming a song that I downloaded to my Phone?

...And is that why my cellular data usage went through the roof?
Okay, can anyone explain this behavior?
I'd like to play a few tunes while I'm driving home. I've disabled "use cellular data" because I'm figuring that is the culprit for my data this month going to 7+ gig.
Select playlist with 100% downloaded songs. Hit shuffle and see this:
Really?
So I go home to my Wi-Fi and try to play the same song. It works. Shut down radios with Airplane mode and no worky (see above). Turn WiFi back on and the song plays. Turn off Wi-Fi mid song and it skips to the next song.
My conclusion: iTunes Match streams songs that it leads you to belive that you have downloaded. 

Good questions.
I searched for the song and found it, but it had no cloud icon.
Thinking perhaps that maybe the icon wasn't showing, I turned off Show All Music and looked. The song was still there.
Perhaps I'll bust out Wireshark and see what I can find with a packet capture.

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