What does "bleeding sky" or "bleeding [something]" mean? Is it common metaphor? It sounds creepy.

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Rebecca

This isn't a common metaphor, no! Here, I believe it means either the sunset or sunrise when it looks like the colors are bleeding in the sky, and sometimes the colors are quite red. "Bleed" doesn't always relate to blood, though. Sometimes liquid, gases, or other things can "bleed;" it means something seeps into something else. Ex: The colors are bleeding into each other since the paint isn't dry yet. Ex: At sunset, sometimes it looks like the sky is bleeding.

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