The Kinks' "Something Better Beginning"

For my Collection Audit project, I recently listened to the deluxe edition of Kinda Kinks.  The opening guitar figure in "Something Better Beginning" (which also recurs later in the song) sounded interesting to me, so I figured out how to play it.  I was wondering if it involved an interval of a fourth or a fifth, but it's actually just a second.  Simplified, it's a modulation from D major to Dsus2.  Specifically, it's this:

E|---2-0-
B|---3---
G|---2---
D|---0---
A|-0-----
E|-------

Once I had that, I started figuring out the rest of the chords and eventually got the whole chord progression:

|: D major / Dsus2 :|
D major / C major
E minor / A major / E minor / A major / D major

D major / D7 / G major
G major / D major / A major / G major
G major / D major / A major
|: D major / Dsus2 :|

Bb major / D major / Bb major / D major
F major / C major / Bb major / A major

D major / C major
E minor / A major / E minor / A major / D major

D major / D7 / G major
G major / D major / A major / G major
G major / D major / A major
|: D major / Dsus2 :|

Where I have "|: D major / Dsus2 :|" in the chord progression, it's more accurately the tab I have written out above.

Once I had the chords, I started thinking about the lyrics, and I found a couple instances where the tonality of the chords emphasizes the lyrics.

While the song's in D major (two sharps), the bridge is (with some accidentals) in F major (one flat).  The first two lines in the bridge mirror this unexpected tonality with unexpected love:  "I never thought I'd love like this until I met you / I found something I thought I'd never have."

The song ends with that D major to Dsus2 transition, so it doesn't really resolve.  Similarly, the singer/speaker's question ("Is this the start of another heartbreaker / Or something better beginning") is left open.  There isn't an answer.