Going-to future
The going-to future is a grammatical construction used in English to refer to various types of future occurrences. It is made using appropriate forms of the expression to be going to. It is an alternative to other ways of referring to the future in English, such as the future construction formed with will (or shall) – in some contexts the different constructions are interchangeable, while in others they carry somewhat different implications.
Constructions analogous to the English going-to future are found in some other languages, including French and Spanish.
Origin
The going-to future originated by the extension of the spatial sense of the verb go to a temporal sense (a common change, the same phenomenon can be seen in the preposition before). The original construction involved physical movement with an intention, such as "I am going [outside] to harvest the crop." The location later became unnecessary, and the expression was reinterpreted to represent a near future.
The colloquial form gonna and the other variations of it as mentioned in the following section result from a relaxed pronunciation of going to. They can provide a distinction between the spatial and temporal senses of the expression: "I'm gonna swim" clearly carries the temporal meaning of futurity, as opposed to the spatial meaning of "I'm going [in order] to swim".
The Weekend
What if everyday I woke up late
I did whatever I felt like?
I felt clever, I'd go on adventures
I'd run with lions in the dead of night
Wouldn't it be nice
To Saturdays and Sundays?
When I fall down
I know I've got this weekend to live
I'm gonna get my freak on
It carries me and we'll be rocking our playlist
I won't back down
I'll live it up like Hendricks
Now I'll paint my face just like his
Let's own this town
It's all about the weekend
So let's get down
It's time to flaunt our innocence
Try new things that don't make sense
Or maybe just hang out with friends
I can wait a lifetime or I could lose a lifetime
If I don't change my ways, get out of this rat race
We could do this right
To Saturdays and Sundays
When I fall down
I know I've got this weekend to live
I'm gonna get my freak on
It carries me and we'll be rocking our playlist
I won't back down
I'll live it up like Hendricks
Now I'll paint my face just like his
Let's own this town
It's all about the weekend
It's all about the weekend
So let's get down
Get down, get down
Wouldn't it be nice
To Saturdays and Sundays?
When I fall down
I know I've got this weekend to live
I'm gonna get my freak on
It carries me and we'll be rocking our playlist
When I fall down
I know I've got this weekend to live
I'm gonna get my freak on
It carries me and we'll be rocking our playlist
I won't back down
I'll rock out like Nirvana
Now we time lose like Madonna
It carries me
It's all about the weekend
It's all about the weekend
So let's get down
Let's get down
Let's get down