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You just have to let stuff go sometimes. For me it's about finding that balance of not being completely happy and not working it to death and standing half a chance of ever finishing anything. Difficult to manage when you have limited time to work on stuff meaning that the process gets stretched out over a much longer time period. Stuff gets stuck.
I find it fascinating that my own "rules" (they're not written down or anything) are so flexible in certain specific circumstances as well. Like, I'm not a fan of overly specific references, but then again i like just enough specificity to make a situation seem real, but then again... ad nauseum.
Another one is that I will not let anything overly "feely" that doesn't actually make grammatical sense pass... but then again sometimes I do. I was called on it the other day when someone had to learn one of my songs to sing harmony on it - they asked "what are you singing there" and when told them, they asked "does that make sense?". My response was that "It sort of does... to me.. at a stretch... well, I know what it means anyway". The point being that I say to myself that that logical grammital correctless is a red line for me, but then i wave it through if it sounds good, and flows, and i kind of like the slightly odd ambiguity...
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Dooks-Fatberg
I can totally relate. Almost every lyric I write makes me wanna puke, very difficult to get anywhere when I'm judging myself so brutally. Small wonder I never get anything finished!!