The "bleeding" in the bar. Yes. I was pretty much licking my wounds, alone at a table at Maxi's downtown. One particular night, after one of those rejections. I was "Licking my wounds" that idiom is what led to the line "I will go to bleed".

"There's the bar where I will go lick my wounds" just didn't have a ring to it. :-)

Building's still there. It's not Maxi's anymore. It's been several things since then. I think it even burned once.

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