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Poison's fifth album, Native Tongue, was released 8 February 1993.

It was strongly influenced by Kotzen's fresh songwriting contributions and guitar performance.

It marked a change for the band as they abandoned their anthemic party tunes to focus on more serious subjects, and was far more blues-rock oriented than glam metal.

Containing the singles " Stand " which featured the Los Angeles First A. M. E. Church Choir on backing vocals, " Until You Suffer Some ( Fire And Ice )" and " Body Talk ", the album received generally positive reviews and did go Gold, but following the arrival of grunge sales were sluggish compared with the first three albums, selling only 2 million copies worldwide.

The band toured in support of the album, but tensions mounted between Kotzen and the rest of the band.

Kotzen's future in the band was doomed when it was discovered that he had become romantically involved with Rockett's then-fiancée Deanna Eve.

Kotzen was promptly fired, and replaced by Blues Saraceno in November 1993, who completed the world tour with the band including the famous " HOLLYWOOD ROCK " concerts in Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, Brazil, where they played to over 165, 000 people.

A concert from the Native Tongue world tour was released on VHS / DVD titled " Seven Days Live ".